Court documents unsealed in the US case against Peter Stokes, a 19 year old dual US Estonian citizen accused of being a member of the notorious Scattered Spider hacking group, reveal that Microsoft provided the FBI with records tied to a tracking mechanism called the Global Device Identifier, or GDID. The identifier, which is automatically assigned to every Windows installation , was enough to link Stokes’ computer to specific websites and third party services, even though he was running...
