afaik if you accept to log in to a microsoft account when you install windows 10 or 11, it’ll set up your documents, photos and some other directories for sync to your onedrive account.
but if something’s running on your computer outside of a browser or VM, it has access to all your files anyway.
It’s mostly passive tracking of network traffic. You data could be further compromised depending on the operating system you use and the threat model under which you operate.
How does this theft work? Do they break into my computer or accounts & take it unauthorized? Is it my data?
afaik if you accept to log in to a microsoft account when you install windows 10 or 11, it’ll set up your documents, photos and some other directories for sync to your onedrive account.
but if something’s running on your computer outside of a browser or VM, it has access to all your files anyway.
It’s mostly passive tracking of network traffic. You data could be further compromised depending on the operating system you use and the threat model under which you operate.