After a series of cyberattacks having recently affected bigwig tech companies like Apple and Facebook, a late Friday statement by Microsoft has revealed that the company's computers had also been hacked in the same way as the other attacks.

While acknowledging the hacking attack in a Friday published post on the official Microsoft Security Response Center blog, Microsoft hinted that it had made a public disclosure of the hack after being aware of the fact that its employee computers had been compromised for an unspecified period of time.

In the blog post, Matt Thomlinson - general manager of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Security division - said that, similar to the reported attacks experienced by Apple and Facebook, Microsoft also admits that a security intrusion had recently hit its systems.

Thomlinson further added that, in consistency with the security response practices followed by Microsoft, the company had refrained from making a public statement about the hack till it had completed its "initial information gathering process."

Revealing that the internal investigation carried out by Microsoft has shown that "a small number of computers," including a few of the systems in its Mac business unit, had been "infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations," Thomlinson said: "We have no evidence of customer data being affected and our investigation is ongoing."