A former Microsoft employee who Windows updates and software that validates product key codes was sentenced to a three-month prison term on Tuesday



From Computerworld:

After he serves his sentence, Alex Kibkalo, 34, will be deported to Russia.

Kibkalo was arrested March 19 in Bellevue, Wash. for allegedly leaking pre-release software updates for Windows RT, the tablet-specific operating system, to a French blogger in July and August 2012 -- months before its release. The FBI, which was brought onto the case after a Microsoft investigation, also said Kibkalo provided the same blogger with the Activation Server SDK (software development kit), internal-only code to create the activation systems which validate product keys, Microsoft's primary anti-piracy technology.

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