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March 21, 2014 03:48 am GMT
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Microsoft Tracks Down Rogue Employee By Snooping Blogger's Hotmail
A new court filing details the extraordinary lengths Microsoft is willing to go in order to protect its intellectual property: Accessing a blogger's private Hotmail and chat data.
On Wednesday, it was first reported that Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee, is facing federal criminal charges over allegations that he stole trade secrets while working for the company
According to an indictment in the criminal complaint, Kibkalo "uploaded proprietary software and pre-release software updates for Windows 8 RT as well as the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Kit (SDK)" to his personal SkyDrive (now OneDrive) account in August 2012. The interesting part of this story is how Microsoft fingered Kibkalo for the leak. Read more...
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