News - Xbox LIVE not hacked, users targeted by phising scam

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Xbox LIVE users targeted by phising attempts via email.

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This week, however, it seemed that Xbox Live wasn’t as secure as people initially thought with reports of a large scale hacking of subscriber accounts. As it turns out, it now appears that The Sun sensationalised the security breach, stating that thousands of Xbox Live accounts had been hacked with “millions of dollars” stolen.

But then again - "Gamers ripped off by con email" isn't as good a headline as one saying that Microsoft had been hacked.

A pal of mine came up with an interesting spin - if you get one of these kind of websites that asks for your (in this case) XBox Live credentials, deliberately put in a password that has no resemblance to the real one. This leads to the obvious step that if the website takes those credentials with no objection then it's demonstrably bogus.

Apart from that, I'm assuming that the usual rules ("NEVER click on a link in an email", etc) apply.

[Zak33]

I hope The Sun gets a nice big fat lawsuit on it's head for this one