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Violation Tracker Current Parent Company Summary
Current Parent Company Name: Microsoft
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol Nasdaq: MSFT)
Headquartered in: Washington
Major Industry: information technology
Specific Industry: software
Penalty total since 2000: $1,590,084,462
Number of records: 23
| Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined) | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| competition-related offenses | $1,296,283,959 | 6 |
| employment-related offenses | $202,330,841 | 9 |
| consumer-protection-related offenses | $53,100,000 | 4 |
| financial offenses | $38,327,896 | 3 |
| environment-related offenses | $41,766 | 1 |
| Top 5 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | $1,270,967,014 | 4 |
| wage and hour violation | $104,355,841 | 3 |
| employment discrimination | $91,225,000 | 5 |
| investor protection violation | $35,000,000 | 1 |
| privacy violation | $33,000,000 | 2 |
Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the
Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.
Links: For a summary of this company's regulatory penalties in more than 50 other countries, see its Violation Tracker Global summary page
here.
Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found
here.
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case.
| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Microsoft Corporation | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2006 | private lawsuit-state | $1,100,000,000 |
| Microsoft | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2009 | MS-AG | $100,000,000 |
| Microsoft | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $97,000,000 |
| Microsoft | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2012 | CA-MULTI | $70,000,000 |
| Activision Blizzard, Inc. | employment discrimination | 2023 | CA-CRD | $54,000,000 |
| Activision Blizzard Inc. | investor protection violation | 2023 | SEC | $35,000,000 |
| Microsoft | consumer protection violation | 2003 | WV-AG | $20,000,000 |
| Microsoft | privacy violation | 2023 | FTC | $20,000,000 |
| Activision Blizzard, Inc. | employment discrimination | 2022 | EEOC | $18,000,000 |
| Microsoft Corporation | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2019 | SEC | $16,565,150 |
| Microsoft Corporation | employment discrimination | 2024 | CA-CRD | $14,425,000 |
| LinkedIn Corporation | privacy violation | 2016 | private lawsuit-federal | $13,000,000 |
| Microsoft Hungary | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | 2019 | USAO | $8,751,795 |
| LinkedIn Corporation | benefit plan administrator violation | 2023 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,750,000 |
| LinkedIn Corp. | wage and hour violation | 2014 | WHD | $5,855,841 |
| Microsoft Corporation | employment discrimination | 2020 | OFCCP | $3,000,000 |
| Microsoft Corporation | economic sanction violation | 2023 | OFAC | $2,980,265 |
| LinkedIn Corporation | employment discrimination | 2022 | OFCCP | $1,800,000 |
| Activision Blizzard | wage and hour violation | 2017 | private lawsuit-state | $1,500,000 |
| Microsoft | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | MA-AG | $967,014 |
| Microsoft Corporation | economic sanction violation | 2023 | BIS | $347,631 |
| Microsoft Corp. | consumer protection violation | 2002 | CA-OCDA | $100,000 |
| Microsoft Corp. | environmental violation | 2024 | VA-ENV | $41,766 |
