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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)
Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
Erm? 2007-03-22
Grenage (2 replies)
Re: Erm? 2007-03-22
Anonymous
Re: Erm? 2007-03-23
Anonymous
Account pretexters plague Xbox Live 2007-03-22
Matt Peskett
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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