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Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested for Leaking Code

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday March 20 2014, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-wanted-that? dept.

Rashek writes:

"Alex Kibkalo, an ex-Microsoft employee was just arrested for stealing and leaking company secrets.

Having spent seven years working for Microsoft, Kibkalo is alleged to have leaked Windows 8 code to a French technology blogger in mid-2012, prior to the software's release. Kibkalo was apparently angry over a poor performance review."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Dunbal on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:02PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:02PM (#18862)

    Not taking Microsoft's side here if they had no basis to do so, BUT - if it's a requirement for employees to use hotmail (which is owned by Microsoft) for internal and/or external communication, then this is no different than any other corporation going through its internal mail servers. You do know your IT department is "reading" your mail, right? Try to send porn pics or some other objectionable email through the company server and see how long it takes to be deleted and you summoned to your boss' office.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheloniousToady on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:04PM

    by TheloniousToady (820) on Thursday March 20 2014, @01:04PM (#18863)

    Next time you try this experiment, just send the objectionable material directly to me. Then I'll have plausible deniability.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by KritonK on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:10PM

    by KritonK (465) on Thursday March 20 2014, @02:10PM (#18890)

    You do know your IT department is "reading" your mail, right?

    Given that I am my company's IT department, they'd better be reading my mail!

    • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:20PM

      by Dunbal (3515) on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:20PM (#18995)

      Heh good one.

      True story. My wife's former boss insisted that he didn't real "emails" from anyone. He either communicated face to face or by phone, but not email. This, as a country manager for a Fortune 500 co. Long story short, my wife now works for another company at a higher level and with better pay. Some people actually try to get by without this whole newfangled e-mail thingie, apparently. But they're usually arse-holes.