Former Microsoft manager sent down for domain name fraud
A woman who had been responsible for managing Microsoft's Internet domain names has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for defrauding her employer out of £500,000 in fake registration fees.
Carolyn Gudmundson, 46, formerly a programme manager at Microsoft's MSN division, pleaded guilty in January to charges that she used her position within the company to run a number of scams between 2000 and 2004.
In addition to the frauds, Gudmundson was also associated with Microsoft's notorious 1999 Hotmail outage, which knocked 60 million users offline. The outage happened when the passport.com domain, which was needed for logins to Hotmail, was not renewed. Gudmundson was listed as the Microsoft contact for that domain registration.
