... The Wall Street Journal reports that there was a break in into Microsoft's internal network and the intruders were:
...believed to have stolen the blueprints to its most valuable software, including the latest versions of Windows and Office, people familiar with the situation said. [...] The motive behind the break-in isn't known, but industry expertsspeculated it could be the early phase of a "data hostage" case, in which hackers threaten to publicly disclose a corporation's intellectual property....
While it's a sure thing that Microsoft would pay to avoid having the world know how ugly their sourcecode really is, it's more likely some poor user out to kill off Mr. Paperclip, once and for all.
