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Just had my Xbox live account hacked

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javeryh:
I was hacked back in December - they drained my account of points (2200) and tried charging my CC but it had expired.  I talked to the MS CSR on a Friday and my account was restored on the following Monday.  It is so obvious they know what is going on but can't seem to do anything to stop it. 

The hack happened WHILE I WAS USING MY XBOX.  This is the insane part to me - someone was able to force me offline and steal my stuff while I was using my console.  That is the crazy part.  I can't believe MS doesn't have some sort of safeguard in place for that.  Let's see... javeryh is logged in from NJ pretty much every night but all of a sudden javeryh is trying to log in from Russia WHILE HE IS IN ONLINE NJ.  Better let him on.  It's madness.

Samstag:
I've been on Live for about 6 years with the same password.  I've never attached any payment option to the account so I'm not too concerned about getting hacked.

hypernova:
Come to think of it, those "email" things I've seen sound like a scam by themselves to me.  They want YOUR username AND password.  They certainly go to @live.com email addresses, but I think those are user created.

There still has to be some quick and easy method they used to get my password. 

I think this is worse than PS3's breach of security, because it doesn't seem like too many PS3 owners had their funds stolen.  MS is having this happen over and over, after large wads of cash were taken, and is doing nothing to warn its users.

Like the woman on HoX, my account was supposedly immediately suspended by the CSR guy I was talking to, but I was able to log in for a few more hours afterward.  Finally was suspended after about 4-6 hours.

ark_ader:
Hypernova:

Over 2 Years

Over 2 years

K

I did get my hotmail frozen two weeks before and Microsoft did ask me for some information on my hotmail account and my old passwords I had on file.

My email I got was from Microsoft but my account for Xbox Live is different to my hotmail one.

The email certificate was from Hotmail and it was verified on two separate machines.  But like I said, the email for hotmail is totally different for the xbox live account.

I sent a file that probably went through a signature check for spam.  My next bit of advice to you is to have your own webserver account and register a domain. Then use that for your email.

If the above was a scam, it was a damn well good enough to believe, thus making me paranoid enough to remove anything personal online ever again.

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