Last week the Microsoft Corporation announced that part of the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 had been leaked and posted illegally online. The day before the Microsoft announcement on February 12th, hundreds megabytes of text files containing source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 were published across a number of hacker websites. The files included the code of applications such as WINSOCK, Internet Explorer, and Outlook. All the websites where the code was published have since been closed, however there is no guarantee that the information will not resurface.
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