Microsoft denies XBL compromise despite outside account access

In order words, a few people used easely geuse-able passwords.

Your Xbox live account could be also your MSN account, Zune account and a whole bunch of other MS services. This is how mine is setup, and I believe alot of other people. If one is breached, all is breached.

MSN messenger is one of the main sources of these hacks, with people using all sort of IM clients all signing in with their Live Id username and password, the same as their Xbox live account, if they have one. These sort of hacks are unavoidable for careless people.

This is different from someone or some group hacking into Microsoft servers and stealing user details like happened with the PSN hack.

Compare this headline to where the exact same thing happened on PSN last week, where’s the scare mongering this time?

@3 C’mon man, you know that LIVE is unhackabubble!!

@3 – that’s different! Sony don’t pay as much advertising money to websites as Microsoft do.

Related, it’s funny just how many security questions are easily answered by five minutes on someone’s facebook page.

/thumbs up

@3

Because as the headline says, it’s because Live hasn’t actually been completely compromised. It seems to be people using social engineering to get passwords to EA accounts, which are then presumably the same email + password used on the live account. As opposed to there being a huge security hole allowing people to download everyone’s card details.

@3 yaknow i thought the exact same thing when i read this thread and its comments.

One way or another the service has in some way been compromised, and yet everyone jumps to M$’s defense?? wtf?

Admittedly this is a much minor thing than what happened to Sony, but if it were to happen to M$ in the same way, then i hope no-one would be defending them, considering your paying for that service aswell.

@7, I said last week, not months ago, I’m referring to this: http://www.vg247.com/2011/10/12/93000-accounts-compromised-in-psn-attack/

Compare the headlines.

And the “attacks” have near identical rings, except in one case the issue came to light because Sony announced it and the other came to light because people publicly complained, yet the more honest account is the one with the more negative implications.

@7 The incident last week was not the same as the one earlier in the year. It was entirely different but the headlines would make the casual reader believe they’re the same thing. #3′s statement is actually correct. I think you’ve just given a good example of how people’s understanding of events can be manipulated by headlines designed to startle rather than inform.

(Not to mention the huge factual inaccuracy of your “allowing people to download everyone’s card details” statement. That’s not what happened at all. If you believe it is then you’ve been incorrectly informed.)

JM

noone is safe

@9

Sorry, didn’t read your post properly.

This isn’t about bad passwords or social engineering. This is some type of system exploit originating out of China. It happened to me, and I am very good about security and not falling for any BS. If you have an XBOX Live gold account with a credit card attached, you better watch out.