Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to M3tal Daz3's post on April 3, Hi M3tal, Thanks for your reply, will let my friend know about it.
Glad to help. Keep us posted! Email security is not up to Xbox to keep. That's up to the user and the email service itself. In reply to Geth's post on April 3, Hi Geth, Thanks for your reply, yes it is all up to the user and the email service provider. HolyNinja1 Xbox Ambassador. If they are being hacked have them contact the email source teams for example yahoo.
Then contact the yahoo support team to get your account back. I had the same problem before. Online gaming forums are buzzing with reports that Xbox Live accounts linked to Microsoft's Windows Live ID service are being hijacked by malicious hackers.
Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher at Digital Munition, raised the issue on the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, calling attention to rumors that Microsoft's Bungie.
A quick search of user forums at xbox. NET Passport. According to Finisterre, there is a group online called "Infamous Clan" brazenly offering to "jack" Xbox Live accounts and boasting about successful account theft. Several Xbox Live users contacted me to confirm the rumors and make it clear that the stolen accounts are being used for nefarious purposes. Developers are in short supply. When setting up this new account, only use your phone number as a recovery option.
Do not use an alternative email address as your other email accounts may also be compromised. Do not use this new Microsoft account on your Xbox console or on Xbox.
If you can sign in to your account. If Microsoft has identified any suspicious activity on your account, we'll lock the account for your security. Follow these steps if you see this message:. Select Next. On the How do you want to receive your security code?
Sign in with your new password to continue to review the account for changes that may have been made by an attacker. Step 2: Check your account for suspicious activity. Note Location is based on IP address and is approximate to protect your privacy. Look for consistency rather than exactness of location. Go to Security and in the Sign-in activity section, select View my activity. On the Enter code screen, enter the security code that you receive.
Review your recent account activity. Step 3: Review and verify your account info. Review your basic info. From the account home screen, select each link under Your Info to review your info.
Manage how you sign in to Microsoft. Check the Account alias section. This makes it harder for someone to break in to your account. Make sure all your personal info is correct and up to date.
Step 4: Review your billing history. Billing overview. View your transactions online. To view recent charges on your account, select Order history.
You can customize the date range by choosing your beginning and end dates. The grand total includes taxes. After all, I am a member of the press and therefore have received some preferential treatment on this matter although at one point, customer service at MY-XBOX literally hung up on me after warning me that they would, I believe because they thought I was the hacker! A more typical scenario might look like what Xbox Live gamer "Skyllus vBi" had to go through.
It took almost two weeks before he got his account back, and that's only after making a lot of noise about it to customer service and on various gaming sites until someone took notice. We have to be very careful about who's reporting the hijacking and making sure the right person is the person we're helping, because sometimes the attacker will call in and say, 'Help my account's just been hijacked,' and they'll name the account that they're trying to get, therefore trying to confuse everything.
The process is not a quick, simple, 'Oh, hey, we know who you are,' and we can just flip a switch. OK, so bad stuff happens. Microsoft, naturally, is working on stopping the perpetrators. Over time, we would ban consoles and similar Gamertags that indicated to us that it was one person. We figured out it was actually about a dozen people who were using one persona to make it look like it was only one guy.
Then we have cases where we finally get rid of them, and someone else has heard of them, so now a totally different person has assumed that persona. But we can then turn around and provide law enforcement with what they need to conduct their investigation. And we do this internationally, by the way. But if the SFPD officers in my apartment know what they're talking about, then the answer probably isn't very encouraging.
After giving the cops my report, a reference number from Microsoft, and every other single possible detail imaginable, I asked them if there's any chance at all of catching the perpetrator. You saw their response. So at the very least, I can fantasize about the feds busting down the bedroom doors of the hacker only known to me by his one-time Gamertag of "aaoooopwvyyyz. I wish. Seven tips to avoid being hacked on Xbox Live Here are a few things you should do to protect your Xbox Live account, compiled from other users special thanks to MDK xx , my own experiences, and Stephen Toulouse: Don't answer your secret question with the real answer.
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