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Microsoft's Windows 10 Shared Source Kit code leaks
Some Windows 10 source code leaked to the internet, but according to some
reports, the potential for serious exploits may be somewhat limited due to what was
included.
By
Mary Jo Foley
for
All About Microsoft
| June 24, 2017 -- 14:22 GMT (07:22 PDT) | Topic:
Windows 10
Some of Microsoft's Windows 10 source code was leaked earlier this week, but the potential
damage from the breach may be limited, based on various reports.
The Register first noted on June 23 that
up to 32TB of "official and
non-public (Windows 10) installation images" were uploaded to
BetaArchive.com
(https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak)
.
(BetaArchive calls itself "the community for beta collectors" and "one
of the web's largest Beta & Abandonware repositories!") The leaked
code may date back to March 2017, The Register said.
The code that was leaked is part of Microsoft's Shared Source Kit, which includes source code
for the base Windows 10 hardware drivers, PnP code, USB and Wi-Fi stacks, storage drivers,
and some ARM-specific OneCore kernel code, according to "people who have seen its
contents," The Register reported.
BetaArchive has taken what its owner called 1.2TB of Windows 10 code offline since the
original report.
"Our review confirms that
these files are actually a portion of the source code from the Shared
Source Initiative and is used by OEMs and partners
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,"
according to a Microsoft statement.
Through its
Shared Source Initiative
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/)
, Microsoft
licenses source code for various products to certain "qualified" customers, governments, and
partners for debugging and reference purposes.
Another report about the leak in The Verge claims that
"most of the collection (of files that
leaked) has been available for months or even years."
(https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/24/15867350/microsoft-windows-10-source-code-leak)
As various sites have reported, the Windows 10 source code leak happened right after
two
men were arrested in the UK for allegedly trying to hack various Microsoft's systems in order
to get at customer data
(https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-british-men-arrested-over-microsoft-hacking-plot/)
.
So far, no one is saying whether these individuals had anything to do with the Windows 10
source leak.
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