{"id":1002373,"date":"2026-04-10T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002373"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:59:00","slug":"microsoft-suspends-some-developer-accounts-after-they-failed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/microsoft-suspends-some-developer-accounts-after-they-failed-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft suspends some developer accounts after they failed to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reportedly suspended developer accounts that were used to run multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification. According to a Bleeping Computer report, the list of affected projects include Virtual Private Network (VPN) software WireGuard, on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) utility VeraCrypt, the MemTest86 Random Access Memory (RAM) testing and diagnosis tool, and the Windscribe VPN software. &#8220;Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader. [..] Microsoft did not send me any emails or prior warnings. I have received no explanation for the termination and their message indicates that no appeal is possible,&#8221; VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi said last week as quoted by the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reportedly suspended developer accounts that were used to run multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification. According to a Bleeping Computer report, the list of affected projects include Virtual Private Network (VPN) software WireGuard, on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) utility VeraCrypt, the MemTest86 Random Access Memory (RAM) testing and diagnosis tool, and the Windscribe VPN software. &#8220;Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader. [..] Microsoft did not send me any emails or prior warnings. I have received no explanation for the termination and their message indicates that no appeal is possible,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}