An ex Microsoft employee who was found guilty for the crime
of selling trade secrets of window 8 operating system.
A U.S. District Court judge also
fined Alex Kibkalo $100 for his crime.
Kibkalo was arrested in March after he leaked early copies of
Windows 8 to a French blogger. The seven-year Microsoft employee—first in
Russia, then in Lebanon—provided documents to the blogger in 2012, just ahead
of the OS launch.
In early April, Kibkalo pleaded guilty to the crime, which included sharing
Windows 8 RT software updates, which were distributed only to manufacturing
partners, as well as the Activation Server software development kit (SDK).
Microsoft pinpointed the leaker after searching the
Hotmail account of the
unnamed French blogger. Redmond initially defended the move, but later said thatit would change its
policy surrounding
email snooping.
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