Microsoft report reveals over 75k law enforcement requests in 2012

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Similar to Google's Transparency Report Microsoft has released a report detailing the amount of information requests by law enforcement for user information. They have stated that they intend to released a report detailing this information every six months from here on in. The company's report suggests that they received 75,378 reports in 2012, if they had acted on every request it would have affected 137,424 unique accounts or two one-hundredths of one percent of the entire userbase.



Of the requests received only 82% resulted in information disclosure to law enforcement. The full report can be found here.

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doubln4ti0nPosted:

Euler
M60
ReversuhL This is part of the reason why we pay for LIVE.


Some people are just unlucky but they have a good service


Yeah the service is great! Just wish hacking of this sort was less prevelant


I've been told its very easy to get your account back if you do get hacked.

doubln4ti0nPosted:

Euler
Ioway
M60
Brock_Lesnar they have great service


They do when my account got hacked they got it back


my friend got hacked and lost his


Ah that sucks man, i'm fortunate enough to have never been hacked, i do frequently change my passwords though.


I've never been hacked either.

doubln4ti0nPosted:

Euler
M60
ReversuhL This is part of the reason why we pay for LIVE.


Some people are just unlucky but they have a good service


Yeah the service is great! Just wish hacking of this sort was less prevelant


The reason most people get hacked is by sharing there details with people.

TagsPosted:

That's a lot of reports. LOL.

EulerPosted:

M60
ReversuhL This is part of the reason why we pay for LIVE.


Some people are just unlucky but they have a good service


Yeah the service is great! Just wish hacking of this sort was less prevelant

EulerPosted:

Ioway
M60
Brock_Lesnar they have great service


They do when my account got hacked they got it back


my friend got hacked and lost his


Ah that sucks man, i'm fortunate enough to have never been hacked, i do frequently change my passwords though.

EulerPosted:

Even though it says it's only two hundredths of one percent, that is still a huge amount of requests for user information.. I'm glad they're being open about it though

PGAPosted:

Wow, that is a lot of law enforcement requests.

EnvelopePosted:

Wow thats stupied.

KelcyPosted:

M60
Brock_Lesnar they have great service


They do when my account got hacked they got it back


my friend got hacked and lost his