Xbox Live Security Compromised, Accounts Commandeered?

**MIG-31** · Mar 21, 2007, 09:04 PM

Source: Shacknews
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Over the last several days, large numbers of Xbox Live users have claimed that they have been locked out of their Xbox Live accounts, in many cases with the credit cards tied to the accounts being used to purchase Xbox Live Marketplace's currency of Microsoft Points. Following online reports of Halo 2 developer Bungie's player network being compromised, Digital Munition security researcher Kevin Finisterre posted to the security-centric mailing list Full Disclosure that his account too Had Been Stolen After accounts are stolen, thieves appear to have a window of time with which to misuse the account before it is detected and banned, but even after the accounts have been banned there appears to be no real recourse for the accounts' original owners. Finisterre claimed that a Microsoft technical support representative admitted, "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it."

BlueMak · Mar 21, 2007, 11:25 PM

Is this a joke?

Customgamer1 · Mar 22, 2007, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

Is this a joke?

It could be? But as far as I know it's no joke and if your account is stolen it gets banned and there is nothing you can do but to buy a new account

Mar 21, 2007, 09:04 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,818 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Xbox Live Security Compromised, Accounts Commandeered? Source: Shacknews _______________ Over the last several days, large numbers of Xbox Live users have claimed that they have been locked out of their Xbox Live accounts, in many cases with the credit cards tied to the accounts being used to purchase Xbox Live Marketplace's currency of Microsoft Points. Following online reports of Halo 2 developer Bungie's player network being compromised, Digital Munition security researcher Kevin Finisterre posted to the security-centric mailing list Full Disclosure that his account too Had Been Stolen After accounts are stolen, thieves appear to have a window of time with which to misuse the account before it is detected and banned, but even after the accounts have been banned there appears to be no real recourse for the accounts' original owners. Finisterre claimed that a Microsoft technical support representative admitted, "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it." __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Mar 21, 2007, 11:25 PM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Is this a joke? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*