US Microsoft Corp 2012 Misuse (Q9692)
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US Microsoft Corp 2012 Misuse
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January 2012
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A former senior software architect at Microsoft has been arrested and charged over allegedly stealing Windows 8 trade secrets and passing them along to a tech blogger in France. Former senior architect Alex Kibkalo, apparently because he was unhappy with a recent performance review, is accused of passing the secrets that included vital details about Windows 8 RT and ARM devices, as well as a server SDK that could have allowed hackers to reverse engineer-critical code. Kibkalo is alleged to have leaked vital Windows 8 code to an unnamed blogger in 2012 prior to the release of the software. Microsoft had noticed something was amiss when screenshots started appearing in tech blogs across the world revealing details of the upcoming release. Having spent seven years working for Microsoft, Kibk (English)
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