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former Microsoft employee has been arrested in Seattle. The company
accused him of leaking Windows 8 to a French tech blogger.Russian
national Alex Kibkalo, an ex-Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia,
is currently facing criminal charges after passing trade secrets to an
unnamed blogger.
Alex Kibkalo, when a software architect for Microsoft, leaked areas of Home windows 8 code and also the package needed to activate the program. The un named French blogger then released screenshots from the unreleased OS for everybody to determine. The worker accepted to Microsoft security he provided private corporate data towards the blogger. Not surprisingly enough, he was asked to wash out his desk.
The title from the blogger remains unknown, however the court papers read that she or he was well-noted for posting screenshots of pre-release form of the OS. However , the blogger hid their identity stating wrongly that they are from Quebec. A legal court papers also state that Microsoft discovered unauthorized transmissions of proprietary and private trade tips for the blogger: its security experts found an e-mail from Kibkalo inside the writers Hotmail account.
Even though the blogger only released screenshots of Home windows 8 (though they spread broadly online), the worker can also be charged with encouraging the blogger to write the activation package, a vital area of the companys anti-piracy system.
The blogger published the leaked particulars on Twitter and blog and offered Home windows Server activation secrets on eBay. Microsoft claims that in summer time 2012, Alex Kibkalo submitted proprietary software including pre-release software updates of Home windows 8 RT and ARM products, and also the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Package to some PC in Washington and subsequently to their own Home windows Live Sky Drive account, used to personalize the merchandise code to make sure proper validation within the product key activation process.
The title from the blogger remains unknown, however the court papers read that she or he was well-noted for posting screenshots of pre-release form of the OS. However , the blogger hid their identity stating wrongly that they are from Quebec. A legal court papers also state that Microsoft discovered unauthorized transmissions of proprietary and private trade tips for the blogger: its security experts found an e-mail from Kibkalo inside the writers Hotmail account.
Even though the blogger only released screenshots of Home windows 8 (though they spread broadly online), the worker can also be charged with encouraging the blogger to write the activation package, a vital area of the companys anti-piracy system.
The blogger published the leaked particulars on Twitter and blog and offered Home windows Server activation secrets on eBay. Microsoft claims that in summer time 2012, Alex Kibkalo submitted proprietary software including pre-release software updates of Home windows 8 RT and ARM products, and also the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Package to some PC in Washington and subsequently to their own Home windows Live Sky Drive account, used to personalize the merchandise code to make sure proper validation within the product key activation process.
Media reports say that Kibkalo was caught after the blogger contacted
Microsoft to make sure the leaked Windows 8 code was authentic.
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