I don't buy what the PO is saying for a minute. He needs to post the transaction ID or we will assume he is lying through his teeth.
in fairness I would not give anyone my address or IP because everything we do and say is already being recorded and no
i am not being paranoid, I read my routers internet sys-logs, peek at network traffic on the machine and run a file watch
to see what Microsoft is doing.
I am sure this is a Microsoft bug that will get fixed in a security patch soon if word gets out that we know but if you stop everything
you dare at night including many of the widows services and close down all your programs but run a program that audits the windows
SSL certificate store then you might catch a few new ones turning up in the middle of the night, like from the DoS and that.
oh Yes they encrypt everything before it's get sent out but the stupid buggers forgot to code it so that the CA certificates can be seen
Yes, it is known that the CIA, alphabet and other organizations have had their own firmware running on network devices for years. I don't think anything is secret, regardless of what endpoint protection users may think they have and IOT has made us that much more vulnerable.
The transactions, however, are already out there for everyone to see and the OP wouldn't be revealing anything that's not already known.