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XBOX AWARDS VOTING SUSPENDED FOLLOWING 'SECURITY BREACH' - Money_CnC - 03-20-2013
Microsoft may have only announced its inaugural Xbox Entertainment Awards yesterday, but the service has already been hit by problems.
According to MCV, the voting site was the victim of a security breach which resulted in the names, gamertags, emails and birthdays of 2,892 entrants being posted online. Those accessing the site were also reportedly able to edit or remove the listings they saw.
Shortly after this, the site was taken offline for maintenance, while MCV was provided with the following explanation by Microsoft: "We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the Xbox Entertainment Awards landing page and have taken the site offline while we investigate."
This is hardly the first high profile breach in recent times and the extent of the damage isn't yet apparent. We've reached out to Microsoft for comment and will keep you updated as the story develops.
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RE: XBOX AWARDS VOTING SUSPENDED FOLLOWING 'SECURITY BREACH' - Feat - 03-20-2013
Wow, I saw this on TTG a couple of days ago, but I didn't really find it that interesting considering that this isn't the first time Microsoft has had some "security breaches".
RE: XBOX AWARDS VOTING SUSPENDED FOLLOWING 'SECURITY BREACH' - Sunlight - 03-24-2013
It'll be sad seeing Microsoft end up like Sony 2 years ago.
RE: XBOX AWARDS VOTING SUSPENDED FOLLOWING 'SECURITY BREACH' - Major Tom - 03-24-2013
Damn man.
I know that MS will pull though this.
Unlike Sony... They got hacked about 5 times already.
RE: XBOX AWARDS VOTING SUSPENDED FOLLOWING 'SECURITY BREACH' - Sir_CnC - 03-24-2013
Source of the story? I'd assume there's more?