Ex-Microsoft employee gets jail for theft of trade secrets

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A U.s. court has a former Microsoft employee sentenced to three months in prison. The Rus would not have released Microsoft software have been given to an unknown French blogger, who then screenshots online, and keys sold.

The software architect, Alex Kibkalo, was in march of this year arrested and remains still, with the deduction of pre-trial detention, until June 19, stuck. He had already known trade secrets to a Frenchman to have played when he Microsoft was working in Lebanon.

Kibkalo could despite strict non-disclosure rules when Microsoft get their hands on pre-release code for Windows 8 RT. Also uploaded he the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Kit to a computer in Redmond and to its own OneDrive cloud storage. The still unknown French blogger put on the basis of this leaked software screenshots online and sold on eBay activation keys for Windows Server. Moreover, it would the disclosure of the Microsoft Activation Server sdk, use the copy to reverse-engineer.

The Rus would be the relatively low imprisonment was attributable to a full confession. The man would be the trade secrets of Microsoft in 2012, let it drain, after he resigned when he was in conflict hit with the managers. He became a suspect after he was on a forum bragged about providing the information to the blogger. Kibkalo would be seven years at Microsoft have been working.

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