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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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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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