Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8

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Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee has been arrested yesterday for stealing and leaking company secrets. The former software architecture engineer is accused of leaking early Windows 8 builds (http://wind8apps.com/microsoft-employee-arrest-windows-8-leaks/) to a French tech blogger with whom he was communicating inside a forum. The ex-Microsoft employee also stands accused of leaking some Windows 7 program files (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-Microsoft-employee-charged-with-passing-5331715.php) and also an internal system meant to protect against software piracy. Kibkalo is said to have leaked the Windows 8 code in the middle of 2012 because he was angry over a poor performance review."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/20/1247232/ex-microsoft-employee-arrested-for-leaking-windows-8