Anonymous not involved in Xbox Live downtime, Microsoft responds.

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Xbox live went down yesterday for quite sometime and nobody could sign into their Xbox live accounts at all and people start getting a bit worried when the Xbox Live service status page does not give you a lot of information and when the outage was quite a large one as the service was down for a few hours.

Some people have jumped to the conclusion that Anonymous hacked Xbox live due to their high profile attacks. However, YourAnonNews has reached out on Twitter to clear up the confusion and claims that Anonymous did not take down Xbox Live and they had nothing to do with the service being offline for so long.

@YourAnonNews
"XBOX Live was NOT hacked by Anonymous."

a Microsoft representative informed gameinformer that the outage was due to routine maintenance. Some individuals had claimed that hacking brought the service down yesterday. Microsoft assures us that this is false.

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Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/14/xbox-live-currently-encountering-sign-in-issues.aspx

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KatsumiChanPosted:

Virgoe Love how PSN gets hacked by them and now xbox has issues and everyone thinks its automatically them hacking everything haha


Yup, it's not even "downing" anymore lol.

VirgoePosted:

Love how PSN gets hacked by them and now xbox has issues and everyone thinks its automatically them hacking everything haha

TorquayPosted:

Howsbruno Figured, after the trouble they got in for taking down the PSN severs. And I never had trouble signing in -_-


They didnt take down ps3 0.o

TomorrowLandPosted:

Lost half of my double XP. Couldn't sign in for 11 hours. @PS3Fanboys: Least we weren't down for 4 months...

XprNPosted:

Why would these hackers waste their time with this? I'm sure they have better things to hack :')

HowsbrunoPosted:

Figured, after the trouble they got in for taking down the PSN severs. And I never had trouble signing in -_-

CrastifyPosted:

i didnt have any trouble yesterday or anything in about a year. me and my friends where playing like the whole weekend

FamousPosted:

Thus info is false anon jay took it down, lol but year I don't think anon will ever take xbox down, they have no reason to.

catpicsPosted:

Im glad it wasnt anon they would just take everything they could get there hands on

SeedPosted:

good to hear it wasn't anon they would have xbox down for days