Microsoft: We Won't Break Into Users' Email Accounts Anymore

Just one week after news surfaced that Microsoft secretly broke into the Hotmail email account of one of its users, the company is updating its security policies.

Microsoft stated it will now contact law enforcement if it needs access to a user's email account for security purposes instead of secretly doing it themselves, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday.

In 2012, Microsoft accessed a blogger's private Hotmail account to determine if a former employee stole trade secrets. News of the incident ignited an outcry over the privacy implications. Read more...