Microsoft has admitted they accessed a blogger’s Hotmail inbox in search of a software leak. Microsoft was in the process of conducting an investigation into the leaking of some software code. Microsoft read a blogger’s inbox who had displayed the code and released details of the then new Windows 8, in order to find out which employee leaked the information to the blogger.
The deputy general counsel for Microsoft, John Frank, said ‘extraordinary actions in the case’ were needed according to a report on the BBC website.
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