Our well-known group Syrian Electronic Army, reported that it has breached various Microsoft services, such as Skype's blog and employee email accounts. After these violations, several records were leaked, which, as they claim, contain conversations between her Microsoft and FBI.
Documents show that the technology company receives hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide access to the data of people using its services. In particular, the FBI claims to pay up to 200 dollars for every access it has in a user account of the company's services.
The files presented by the hackers show alleged invoices issued by Microsoft's Global Criminal Compliance Division for the FBI Digital Intercept Technology Unit. In these invoices, the Windows company appears to have received 281.000 dollars only for November of 2013, says Softpedia.
Leaked documents reveal some of the details of what Microsoft shares with FBI agents. Connection details, first and last name, status, postal code, country, time zone, IP address, and date of service registration.
One of the files that leaked from them hackers allegedly coming from a hacked e-mail account belonging to Microsoft and featuring a message submitted by the FBI asking Redmond for clarification on an issue they are facing with access to a specific user account.
“First of all, thank you for the prompt response to the search warrant. I've been trying all day to access the files. The instructions are excellent. However, with the input key access, the following message appears: “Sorry, this service is not available at this time.” Any suggestions? Thank you."
Το μήνυμα υπογράφεται από το “Federal Bureau of Investigation” και προέρχεται από ένα μήνυμα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου το οποίο προφανώς έφυγε από το domain fbi.gov.
The company from Redmond has not commented on this matter, but the company as always is expected to state that it does not provide access to user accounts in intelligence services, except εάν κάποιο ομοσπονδιακό δικαστήριο το ζητήσει από την εταιρεία.
If the documents are real, they raise a lot of questions for the "innocent" Microsoft.
