Court docs: Microsoft searched through blogger's e-mail to track down alleged leaker
Earlier this week, an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with the theft of trade secrets in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Alex Kibkalo allegedly sent code and other intelligence about Microsoft products to an unnamed French blogger.
In the course of tracking down the alleged leaker, Microsoft searched through the blogger's e-mail account -- before involving law enforcement -- according to court documents.
Kibkalo was a seven-year Microsoft employee working as a software architect in Lebanon at the time of the alleged leaks. The court documents claim he was upset over a poor performance review and started spilling code and other trade secrets to the French blogger.
