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Subject: [ISN] Syrian hackers claim to reveal how much FBI pays Microsoft for customer data
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2014-03-21 8:22:08
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1403210821580.19788 () infosecnews ! org
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http://rt.com/usa/syrian-hackers-reveal-fbi-microsoft-205/
RT.com
March 21, 2014
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hackers have reportedly obtained documents
that reveal how much money the FBI pays Microsoft each time agents try to
obtain or view an individual customer's communication information.
The SEA, a group that has made headlines in the past for infiltrating
Western media outlets that it perceives to be against Syrian President
Bashar Assad, provided a trove of emails and invoices to the Daily Dot,
which analyzed the documents before publishing them.
"The documents consist of what appear to be invoices and emails between
Microsoft's Global Criminal compliance team and the FBI's Digital
Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), and purport to show exactly how much
money Microsoft charges DITU, in terms of compliance costs, when DITU
provides warrants and court orders for customers' data," wrote the Daily
Dot's Kevin Collier and Fran Berman.
"In December 2012, for instance, Microsoft emailed DITU a PDF invoice for
$145,100, broken down to $100 per request for information, the documents
appear to show," they went on. "In August 2013, Microsoft allegedly
emailed a similar invoice, this time for $352, 200 at a rate of $200 per
request. The latest invoice provided, from November 2013, is for
$281,000."
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