Technology | Microsoft Microsoft: We Got Hacked Too But software mega-company makes it sound minor By Neal Colgrass Posted Feb 22, 2013 7:05 PM CST Copied Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates arrives for a conference of the German Social Democratic party, SPD, in Hermannswerder near Potsdam, Germany, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/dapd, Clemens Bilan) All but inevitable? Microsoft has joined the ranks of US companies that admit to having been hacked, Reuters reports. On the heels of Twitter, Apple, Facebook, the New York Times, and others, Microsoft today announced that a few of its computers were infected with malware after connecting to a software developer website. The world's biggest software company made it sound minor, saying no customer data has been affected. No word yet on whether China's military was involved. Read These Next Trump says attack killed Iran's supreme leader. Baby born deep in Amazon rainforest is 'a source of hope.' Woman, 64, is in hot water over her singing of a national anthem. We now know what might send bedbugs scurrying. Report an error