A curious order appeared on the Microsoft News Twitter Account, Jan. 11, Saturday.

The controversial message said: "Don't use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook). They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. #SEA @Official_SEA16."

As if adding insult to injury, another tweet was posted through the same account bearing the message: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA16 #SEA."

The tweet was taken out immediately and Microsoft assured that no customer information was exposed.

"Microsoft is aware of the targeted cyberattacks that temporarily affected Xbox Support and Microsoft News Twitter accounts. The accounts were quickly reset and we can confirm that no customer information was compromised," Microsoft's spokesman said.

The hashtag #SEA points to the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking group sympathetic to Pres. Bashar al-Assad as the perpetrator. The group had previously hacked BBC and Skype's Twitter accounts with the same message.

The Microsoft Twitter account had already been hacked twice by the SEA. The first one was Jan. 1, 2014. The same group also took control of Microsoft's Official Blog by displaying SEA messages through its page. The site was immediately taken down.

The group claimed Microsoft is "monitoring emails and selling data for the American intelligence and other governments." This apparently had been the reason the group had targeted the software company.

"Microsoft is not our enemy but what they are doing affected the SEA," Syrian Eagle, an SEA member, told Mashable while declaring that the group will publish more details and documents to prove the allegation.

Microsoft responded it is actively investigating the issues and focused on protecting its employees and corporate network.

"Microsoft is sometimes obligated to comply with legal orders from governments around the world and provides customer data only in response to specific, targeted, legal demands," Microsoft said in response to SEA's assertion.