The full list of past Microsoft defacements:
This list may not match previous commentary pieces. It was pointed out that the Microsoft Taiwan
site was defaced in January of 2000 which was originally omitted. This skewed the count for many
commentary pieces.
#1: msrconf.microsoft.com (a supposed retired MS server and the first recorded
defacement of a Microsoft server) on October 24, 1999
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/10/24/msrconf.microsoft.com/CMT/
#2: Microsoft Taiwan by Inferno.vr defaced January 5, 2000 (article)
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/01/04/www.microsoft.com.tw/
#3: Microsoft Brazil by IZ corp defaced June 3, 2000
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2000/06/03/www.microsoft.com.br/
#4: The Microsoft Events Server by someone unknown on November 7, 2000
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/11/07/events.microsoft.com
#5 & 6: Microsoft Slovenia (defaced twice) the first time by Furia.BR on December
14, 2000 and the second time by BoLoDoRiO 3 days later
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2000/12/14/www.microsoft.si/
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/12/17/www.microsoft.si/
#7: Microsoft New Zealand was defaced by Prime Suspectz on January, 23rd of
this year:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/01/23/www.microsoft.co.nz/
#8, 9, 10: Microsoft UK, Microsoft Saudi Arabia and Microsoft Mexico were all defaced
on May 3rd, 2001 by Prime Suspectz:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/05/03/www.microsoft.co.uk/
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/05/03/www.microsoft.com.sa/
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/05/03/www.microsoft.com.mx/
#11: Microsoft's STREAMER server was defaced by Prime Suspectz on May 7th, 2001:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/05/07/streamer.microsoft.com/
#12: Microsoft Romānia was defaced by Pentaguard on May 17th, 2001:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/05/18/www.microsoft.ro/
#13: The MSN Mobile "feeds" server was defaced by Prime Suspectz on June 21st, 2001:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/06/21/feeds.mobile.msn.com/
#14: The Microsoft South Africa "interface" server was defaced by the group BlackSun:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/06/19/www.interface.microsoft.co.za/
#15 & 16: Two Microsoft RTE servers were defaced by the group Prime Suspectz:
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/06/21/redsand.rte.microsoft.com/
http://defaced.alldas.de/mirror/2001/06/21/arulk.rte.microsoft.com/
#17 & 18: The Windows Update Server was defaced by the 'Code Red' worm:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/07/19/windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/07/19/explorer.msn.com/
#19: MSN Careers portal by Perfect.br:
http://www.safemode.org/mirror/2001/07/22/content.mswh.careers.msn.com/
#20: Microsoft Saudi Arabia by m0sad team:
http://defaced.alldas.org/mirror/2001/07/27/www.microsoft.com.sa/
#21: Microsoft Research's Social Computing Group by Silver Lords
http://olab2.research.microsoft.com/ (no mirror available. article: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175442.html
#22: Advisory group for Microsoft Office Suite by Perfect.br
http://defaced.alldas.org/mirror/2002/03/16/officecouncil.rte.microsoft.com/
#23: Microsoft customer support site by Silver Lords
http://defaced.alldas.org/mirror/2002/03/24/cust-supp-chat.one.microsoft.com/
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