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.
The documents show that the company technologys receives hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide access to the data of people who use its services. More specifically, the FBI reportedly pays up to $200 for each access it has to 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.
The leaked documents reveal some of the details of what Microsoft shared with FBI agents. Login details, first and last name, state, zip code, country, time zone, IP address, and date enrollments in the service.
One of the files leaked by hackers allegedly comes from a hacked email account owned by Microsoft and presents a message submitted by the FBI and asks Redmond to clarify a topic they are facing to access a particular 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."
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.
