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For those of you who don't know, Bungie has been giving out a special armor variant to prestigious members of the Halo 3 online community called "Recon Armor."
Skyllus vBi, one of two winners (so far) of Recon Armor, had his Xbox Live account stolen from him (the ability to wear the armor is tied to the online account). The "hacker" actually didn't hack to get Skyllus's information, instead, he simply called 1-800-MyXbox and pretended to be Skyllus. After a few calls, he had enough information to trick the operator into giving him a password reset form. Once he got that, he had access to Skyllus's personal information, credit card, etc.
This is not the first time someone had their account stolen by someone asking for it over the phone, there have been reports of this happening as early as March of last year. Microsoft still hasn't done anything to remedy the situation. vBi is a professional gaming team. They are trying to raise awareness of the problem with Xbox Live's security. As a friend of theirs, I ask everyone here to help raise awareness and help protect Xbox Live users from identity theft and related cyber crimes.
vBi highly encourages everyone to email Techcrunch at email@techcrunch.com to have them post this story.
vBi is keeping gamers updated in this thread at mlgpro.com
You can read up conversations with the "hacker" at this thread at vBi's website and this thread at Bungie.net
Here are some other links about the issue. vBi appreciates any and all support given to them by fellow gamers to raise awareness of this issue.
CJ:
http://www.qj.net/XBL-account-hacked.../49/aid/110643
http://xbox360.qj.net/XBL-account-ha.../49/aid/110643
Destructiod:
http://www.destructoid.com/xbl-hacke...s--61919.phtml
News 4 Gamers:
http://n4g.com/xbox360/News-95839.aspx
On our blog:
http://teamvbi.net/2007/12/29/skyllu...r-recon-armor/
Joystiq:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/30/pro-gamer-gets-xbl-account-stolen-for-halo-3-armor/
Engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/halo-celeb-victim-of-repeated-account-hacks-xbox-live-customer/
We are taking this very seriously. Again, any support by raising awareness is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Skyllus vBi, one of two winners (so far) of Recon Armor, had his Xbox Live account stolen from him (the ability to wear the armor is tied to the online account). The "hacker" actually didn't hack to get Skyllus's information, instead, he simply called 1-800-MyXbox and pretended to be Skyllus. After a few calls, he had enough information to trick the operator into giving him a password reset form. Once he got that, he had access to Skyllus's personal information, credit card, etc.
This is not the first time someone had their account stolen by someone asking for it over the phone, there have been reports of this happening as early as March of last year. Microsoft still hasn't done anything to remedy the situation. vBi is a professional gaming team. They are trying to raise awareness of the problem with Xbox Live's security. As a friend of theirs, I ask everyone here to help raise awareness and help protect Xbox Live users from identity theft and related cyber crimes.
vBi highly encourages everyone to email Techcrunch at email@techcrunch.com to have them post this story.
vBi is keeping gamers updated in this thread at mlgpro.com
You can read up conversations with the "hacker" at this thread at vBi's website and this thread at Bungie.net
Here are some other links about the issue. vBi appreciates any and all support given to them by fellow gamers to raise awareness of this issue.
CJ:
http://www.qj.net/XBL-account-hacked.../49/aid/110643
http://xbox360.qj.net/XBL-account-ha.../49/aid/110643
Destructiod:
http://www.destructoid.com/xbl-hacke...s--61919.phtml
News 4 Gamers:
http://n4g.com/xbox360/News-95839.aspx
On our blog:
http://teamvbi.net/2007/12/29/skyllu...r-recon-armor/
Joystiq:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/30/pro-gamer-gets-xbl-account-stolen-for-halo-3-armor/
Engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/halo-celeb-victim-of-repeated-account-hacks-xbox-live-customer/
We are taking this very seriously. Again, any support by raising awareness is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.