Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise data is encrypted. Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys ...

Microsoft confirmed it can hand over BitLocker recovery keys stored in the cloud under warrant, reviving debate over who controls encrypted data. Image: Simon Ray/Unsplash Microsoft is under scrutiny ...

Anyone who encrypts their hard drive or SSD can actually assume that only they can decrypt it again. However, with Microsoft's BitLocker encryption technology, this doesn't seem to be necessarily the ...

Microsoft handed over keys to BitLocker-encrypted data stored on its servers during an FBI probe last year, granting access to data on three separate laptops. BitLocker, a built-in data protection ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys following a warrant request, allowing federal agents to decrypt hard drives belonging to suspects in an alleged fraud investigation ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...

Microsoft confirms FBI can access BitLocker keys via valid legal orders Cloud accounts store unencrypted keys, enabling law enforcement access; local accounts avoid this risk Senator Wyden criticizes ...