Microsoft charges the FBI $50 for a copy of your private data

snoopy · Mar 21, 2014

Microsoft charges the FBI $50 for a copy of your private data, claim 'Redmond hackers'
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'Syrian' hacktivists loot tech giant's servers, it's alleged

Hacktivists apparently loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have bragged they hacked into Microsoft's internal system that bills US cops and feds for access to citizens' private data. And the hackers have apparently spilled the beans on how much Redmond is paid for servicing those American wiretap requests.

The documents were leaked by the Syrian Electronic Army ‏(SEA) after it infiltrated servers belonging to Redmond. The disclosure follows assaults on two official Microsoft-owned online outlets in January alone: the official Facebook and Twitter pages for Redmond's chat service Skype as well as its blog were hit at the turn of the year, and the XboxSupport Twitter pages and the official Microsoft Office blog were compromised later in January.

Microsoft was forced to admit that some of its employees' email accounts were hijacked as a result of the hacking.
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Full story here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/21/sea_analysis/

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