Account pretexters plague Xbox Live

Account pretexters plague Xbox Live
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-03-21

When Kevin Finisterre got his virtual guns handed to him in an online game of Halo 2 last Thursday, he called his opponents on their none-too-subtle hacks that skewed the game in their favor and turned the battle into a rout.

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-21
Concerned Internet Citizen (2 replies)

Wow, this is crazy! How many millions of xbox live subscribers are there? Complaints about 12 accounts sounds like this is a serious and emerging issue!

I hope this never becomes a worm.

I would like to hear what Gadi has to say about the potential size of new botnets this could create.

C...

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Re: Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-05-05
BlackDeath

OK I have read all these messages and I just picked this one to reply too. Don't know why. But I agree I get cheated at least 2 or three times a day whether I play 10 games or 40. The more I play the more I get cheated yeah but for some reason it seems like I get cheated more right after I get onl...

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Re: Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2009-02-22
Anonymous

Generally if they are real hackers or infamous members they use a password recovery tool for the email address that they obtain either through x box support or from the actual tag owner programs like cain and able but the new thing is host booting spreading trojan viruses to as many people as possib...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-21
Anonymous

THis is just great. Having paid for Xbox Live and Halo 2, not only do we have to put up with continual and excessive cheating, now we run the risk of being victims of online fraud. Between, bridging, modding and standbying, these games are already fully exploited by cheats to the point its hardly...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-21
Greg

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/03/21/xbox-live-security-3-21.aspx...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

I just had my profile takin and I know who did it I sent a E-mail to microsoft and will see if they do anything about it.This is identity theft and all the lil nerds should be put in jail.Everyone be carefull of the gamertag-Syco Scorpio-cuz hes one of the nerds who have nothing better to do but tak...

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Re: Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-06-30
Anonymous

hi same happend to me yesterday but i dont no who. the xbox said you have been signed out cos someone else is using your account it said it for a min then signed me back in i think they were testing to see if it worked shame i did not no there nickname...

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Erm? 2007-03-22
Grenage (2 replies)

I'm not really sure if there was any factual information about anything, but this seems to be a blog regarding someone poor at Halo.

Some people are just very good, they look like cheaters. Others are cheaters, neither has anything to do with accounts. The author doesn't know that his account wa...

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Re: Erm? 2007-03-22
Anonymous

Good game reading skills. Someone else was logged onto his account.

Finisterre did not put much store in the threat until the next day, when he found his girlfriend's account--which he had been using the day before--kicked off the system with a message that someone else was using her gamer tag on...

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Re: Erm? 2007-03-23
Anonymous

This is related to security news in every sense. This is a case of identity theft. Notice how these guys keep bragging about jacking the player's CC numbers? How's that any different than stealing a MySQL database full of cards?...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-22
Matt Peskett

I have believed there is a problem with Xbox Live subscriptions for some time due to the sheer volume of traffic and commenters hitting my blog on an entry I made about Xbox Live subscriptions last June. Read a few comments, you'll see this problem isn't isolated to Kevin.

http://www.firetop.co.uk/...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live (Microsoft's Response) 2007-03-22
Anonymous

See below:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/22/ms_says_xbox_live_secure/...

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-22
Anonymous

Sounds like the percentage of accounts being stolen is very, very, low... I bet this Kevin dude probably told them his name at least, who knows what other info he gave them or what was linked via his Blog and where his Gamertag was mentioned online....

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-23
Anonymous

Hah. I'm waiting for these guys to steal someone's Xbox live account who has friends who have skills to retaliate in kind. Maybe they'll learn not to mess with real blackhats......

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-27
Anonymous

Looks like they were stopped--- the link to thier site is down.

MS needs to get more of these 13 year olds under control-- since their parents aren't doing it....

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Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-28
Anonymous

So this guys are stealing accounts, charging credit cards and stuff. They are either controlling the box or controlling ms networks. Or maybe neither! Maybe they are paying other people to complain and act like "someone stole their account" to make ms a bad name. Maybe Sony? Or maybe not! Maybe it w...

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