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Xbox Live hacked!?

SouichirouSouichirou Registered User regular
edited March 2007 in Games and Technology
http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/xbox-live-hacked-accounts-stolen-245887.php

According to Kotaku, bungie.net was hacked and the hackers jacked some XBL accounts. Though i'm not sure what's the most they can do w/ your account other than spend your points, lol.

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  • ThreepioThreepio New Westminster, BCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I'll get it over with:

    "i'm in ur live acccountz, spendin' ur pointz!!"

    That being said, I'll be righteously pissed if my points have been spent...

    On anything other than SotN :) Hopefully they'll have some courtesy and some good taste.

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  • RancedRanced Default Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    they'll buy the games for me oh no

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  • FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    But can they buy a shitload of points using your CC#?? Or is that info only stored locally on your Xbox?

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Threepio wrote: »
    I'll get it over with:

    "i'm in ur live acccountz, spendin' ur pointz!!"

    That being said, I'll be righteously pissed if my points have been spent...

    On anything other than SotN :) Hopefully they'll have some courtesy and some good taste.

    I think I have $1 worth of points just sitting there. I think I can live without that, should worse come to worst.

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  • swiftswift Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I found a flaw with the website a while back that let you see any gamer tags name and address. Ive sent the details to multiple people and it still hasnt been fixed so it doesnt really surprise me its taken them so long to sort this one out.

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  • redstormpopcornredstormpopcorn Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    The following strikes me as bullshit:
    Finisterre says that he called Microsoft Tech and they confirmed that "accounts are being stolen and that "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"
    It's not very good PR to proclaim your service's Apocalypse is imminent and unstoppable. Unless the 'hackers' have physically absconded with the server hardware, there is always something they can do about it.

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  • ZhouZhou Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Yeah that doesn't sound logical at all.

    They could just take the Xbox Live network offline until they can find out who did what. It wouldn't be the end of the world if little Jimmy Shitcock couldn't play Halo 2 for a whole day.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    redstormpopcorn wrote: »
    The following strikes me as bullshit:
    Finisterre says that he called Microsoft Tech and they confirmed that "accounts are being stolen and that "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"
    It's not very good PR to proclaim your service's Apocalypse is imminent and unstoppable. Unless the 'hackers' have physically absconded with the server hardware, there is always something they can do about it.
    No fucking way someone from MS would say that.

    Kotaku is full of shit.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Always has been.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited March 2007
    someone bought all the games on XBLA i wanted to buy when I got home anyways.

    thanks hacker, thanks.

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  • ZephosZephos Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up. MichiganRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    JJ wrote: »
    redstormpopcorn wrote: »
    The following strikes me as bullshit:
    Finisterre says that he called Microsoft Tech and they confirmed that "accounts are being stolen and that "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"
    It's not very good PR to proclaim your service's Apocalypse is imminent and unstoppable. Unless the 'hackers' have physically absconded with the server hardware, there is always something they can do about it.
    No fucking way someone from MS would say that.

    Kotaku is full of shit.

    good thing kotaku didnt write that, the article they link to did.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Zephos wrote: »
    JJ wrote: »
    redstormpopcorn wrote: »
    The following strikes me as bullshit:
    Finisterre says that he called Microsoft Tech and they confirmed that "accounts are being stolen and that "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"
    It's not very good PR to proclaim your service's Apocalypse is imminent and unstoppable. Unless the 'hackers' have physically absconded with the server hardware, there is always something they can do about it.
    No fucking way someone from MS would say that.

    Kotaku is full of shit.

    good thing kotaku didnt write that, the article they link to did.

    They were probably talking to some call center flunkie in india that had no idea what a hacker was.

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  • AoiAoi Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Zephos wrote: »
    JJ wrote: »
    redstormpopcorn wrote: »
    The following strikes me as bullshit:
    Finisterre says that he called Microsoft Tech and they confirmed that "accounts are being stolen and that "Hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it"
    It's not very good PR to proclaim your service's Apocalypse is imminent and unstoppable. Unless the 'hackers' have physically absconded with the server hardware, there is always something they can do about it.
    No fucking way someone from MS would say that.

    Kotaku is full of shit.

    good thing kotaku didnt write that, the article they link to did.

    Then maybe they could have linked to an article that doesn't sound like it was written by a reactionary douchebag? With something like this, you know there have to be articles written by someone credible with some kind of valid, real quotes.

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  • ZephosZephos Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up. MichiganRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    looks like all the information is comming from here and here.


    Gamespot has a story on it, i guess there is audio of some of the tech calls on the digital munition website

    http://www.gamespot.com/news/6167801.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0


    Edit: also, Cnet's story

    all of which feature the "nothing we can do" quote. which to my understanding, comes from a tech support lackey, not a MS higher up.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Zephos wrote: »
    looks like all the information is comming from here and here.


    Gamespot has a story on it, i guess there is audio of some of the tech calls on the digital munition website

    http://www.gamespot.com/news/6167801.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0


    Edit: also, Cnet's story

    all of which feature the "nothing we can do" quote. which to my understanding, comes from a tech support lackey, not a MS higher up.

    So the lackey may have literally meant, "Nothing we (here at the call center) can do about it (stop calling you fucking asshole)"

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Far as I can muster though, there really ain't anything MS or Bungie can do. ' Cept train thier call centre staff better, but that would take ages.



    (Interesting side point: My accent seems to come through more when I'm right angry)

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    GUYS GUYS GUYS, IT'S A HALO 3 ARG! DON'T YOU SEE?

    or, like, this sucks, but i doubt you need to start watching for horsemen just yet.

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  • DJDMDJDM Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Meh

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    DJDM wrote: »
    Meh

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