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