Major Microsoft secrets were uploaded to the FTC v. Microsoft court repository by accident, and the court says Microsoft is to blame.
Microsoft’s leak that spread Tuesday morning revealed a ton of explosive Xbox secrets, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California says it was Microsoft’s own fault.
On Sept. 15, the court uploaded dozens of documents related to the Federal Trade Commission v. Microsoft case — a normal part of the judicial process. Both Microsoft and the FTC have had documents uploaded over the past few months, during the preliminary injunction hearing that Microsoft ultimately won. Typically, the documents are heavily redacted, with large blocks of text blacking out confidential information. Mistakes do happen: Sony Interactive Entertainment filed a badly redacted document in June, revealing development costs for both Horizon Forbidden West and The Last of Us Part 2. The court ended up deleting everything from the file repository when that happened, a mistake that’s minuscule in comparison to what happened this week.
