Whistleblower Suit Against Microsoft Dismissed with Leave to Amend Complaint

Frederick Olson joined Microsoft in 2021 as an at-will employee. Microsoft contracted to provide IT services to Freddie Mac, and in December 2023 Olson was assigned to the Freddie Mac Azure OpenAI Accelerator project. He alleges that Microsoft employees asked him to leak sensitive information from Freddie Mac’s network and to lie and falsify a status report. Doing so, he believed, would violate Microsoft’s Trust Code. He refused to engage in any misconduct and reported the …