Microsoft’s 32TB Windows 10 software data source code have been leaked online, according to the Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ). The 32TB data includes official and confidential installation images and software blueprints which have been leaked and uploaded to http://betaarchive.com, according to the report. It also added that the confidential data exfiltrated from Microsoft's in-house systems around March this year. The leak supposedly contains Shared Source Kit which includes the source to the base Windows 10 hardware drivers plus Redmond's PnP code, its USB and Wi-Fi stacks, its storage drivers, and ARM-specific OneCore kernel code, the Register reported. Cyber criminals or hackers who have this information can freely use the codes to exploit any security vulnerabilities to hack Windows systems worldwide, which could be a serious cyber security threat in the long term. To add on, top-secret builds of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, have been leaked among copies of officially released versions, which is not yet available to the public. The reports also reveal that this software includes, for example, prerelease Windows 10 "Redstone" builds and unreleased 64-bit ARM flavors of Windows. A confidential software toolset is also leaked which includes multiple versions of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile Adaptation Kit. It is used to run the OS on several portable and mobile devices. Online sourced claimed that netizens with access to Beta Archive's private repo of material can still access the leaked data completely for free. It is being described by some researchers as a bigger leak than the Windows 2000 source code lab in 2004, according to the Register. In contradiction, Microsoft has not yet agreed or confirmed this news and indirectly claims that it is an unreliable information. Also, discussions in the Betaarchive.com forum questions the authenticity of the report from the register and expressed the view that the news is exaggerated. Register (http://theregister.co.uk ) website seems to be found not accessible during the last few hours, probably due to the interest the news generated to the public that created a DDoS to the portal itself!.
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