A former employee of Microsoft Corp is facing criminal charges after he allegedly passed trade secrets to a blogger in France, U.S. court documents showed. Russian national Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee in Lebanon and Russia, admitted to Microsoft investigators that he provided confidential company documents and information to the blogger, documents from a Seattle federal court showed.
Background:
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with leaking trade secrets to blogger [Reuters]
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with trade secret theft [Bloomberg]