Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store credits

Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by kiallmacinnes on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:46AM (#20468205)

Microsoft employs many contractors, we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally. More often than not these people will come from external companies who supply the staff, but they will be based on-site and embedded onto a team for the duration of their contract.

Pretty sure I can't name any of our vendor companies, but you can take a guess at some of the bigger ones I'm sure.

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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by deaddrop on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:49AM (#20468230)

>...we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally...

There was a time when MSFT called them "dash trash". Good times. /s

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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by Scuds on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:59AM (#20469814)

They still tend to get worked pretty hard, have no job security and don't get paid anywhere near as well.

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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by juskrey on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:00AM (#20468286)

Not a big secret - just google largest Ukrainian IT companies (they are all outsourcing)

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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by magashna on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:17PM (#20471335)

getting an auditing threat from a @v-microsoft.com accounts are pretty common

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