Our well-known group Syrian Electronic Army, reported that it has violated various services της Microsoft, όπως το blog του Skype και λογαριασμούς ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου εργαζομένων της εταιρείας. Μετά από αυτές τις παραβιάσεις διέρρευσαν αρκετά αρχεία, τα οποία όπως ισχυρίζονται περιέχουν συνομιλίες μεταξύ της 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 φέρεται να προέρχεται από ένα hacked λογαριασμό e-mail που ανήκει στη Microsoft και παρουσιάζει ένα μήνυμα που υποβλήθηκε από το FBI και ζητάει από το Redmond clarifications regarding an issue they are experiencing 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 key access input, the following message appears: “Sorry, this service is not available at this time.” Any suggestions? Thank you."
The message is signed by the "Federal Bureau of Investigation" and comes from an e-mail message that apparently left the domain fbi.gov.
The company from Redmond has not commented on this, but the company is always expected to declare that it does not provide access to user accounts in the intelligence services unless a federal court requests the company.
If the documents are real, they raise a lot of questions for the "innocent" Microsoft.
