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Thanks to Paul Rawlings for this one:

According to the news story on the radio here in the UK this morning, rumours are that the source code for both Whistler and Office 10 were items that were stolen from the hacked network. However, this part is just rumour and is not confirmed.



LONDON (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft Corp said on Thursday that hackers had broken into the company´s computer system, in what a spokesman called a ``deplorable act of industrial espionage.´´

Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller declined to comment on what specific areas of the computer network were breached, what the specific goals of the hackers were, or the possible motives.
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