The online Microsoft Store in India was hacked – allegedly by a group of Chinese hackers. The big story, though, isn’t that the site was hacked, or that customer data was compromised and exposed by the attackers, but that the Microsoft Store was storing the data in clear text and didn’t take basic steps to protect it in the first place.

Enough already! While the hackers who compromised the India Microsoft Store network, and breached the servers are certainly to blame for exposing the customer data, the blame really lies with the Microsoft Store itself for storing sensitive data in plaintext.