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Ex-Microsoft Employee Pleads Guilty to Trade Secret Theft

Former Microsoft Corp. employee Alex Kibkalo pleaded guilty to leaking company trade secrets to a blogger in France and agreed to pay $22,500 in restitution and spend three months in prison.

Kibkalo, a Russian national who worked for Microsoft in Lebanon, admitted he uploaded pre-release updates for Windows 8 and a software development kit for guarding against copyright infringement to his online backup storage in July and August 2012, according to a plea agreement filed yesterday in federal court in Seattle.