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Ex-Microsoft employee charged with leaking trade secrets to blogger (update2)

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Dissent

Chris Peters reports:

A former employee of Microsoft Corp is facing criminal charges after he allegedly passed trade secrets to a blogger in France, U.S. court documents showed.

Russian national Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia, admitted to Microsoft investigators that he provided confidential company documents and information to the blogger, documents from a Seattle federal court showed.

 Read more on Reuters.

Reporter’s name corrected.

Update: Gregg Keizer has more details on Computerworld. The case was not up on PACER earlier today when I last checked.

Update 2: You can read the criminal complaint here (pdf).

This case is a  good reminder about reading privacy policies, too.  Some of us were wondering about how Microsoft could just access the blogger’s Hotmail account content. This may be the answer to that:

Outlook: “We may access information about you, including the content of your communications, to protect the rights or property of Microsoft”

— George Scriban (@scribandotcom) March 20, 2014

 


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