Anonymous not involved in Xbox Live downtime, Microsoft responds.

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.

Posted: Apr 14, 2013 9:14 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

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

Comments

NotedPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Anonymous even posted on Twitter that they weren't behind the attack

hehPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Hey there was youtube videos posted claiming there starting to attack so its not completely are fault most of us were misled by false information.

SynybunPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

TTG_GTL I didnt think they would be

Me either. Everybody always freaks out and blames anonymous.

uwantsumPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

I didnt think they would be

ConvergePosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

see all those morons were wrong.

iPlayDirtyPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Dan94 i just don't see how if your paying for xboxlive they should have the best security for there console and not have to worry about people hacking into it. so it partly xbox's fault.

hacker are very smart now days but yes it should be better but xbox is fine they havent hacked them if you read the article !

iPlayDirtyPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

WW3 I cant add friends on xbl :L

just a xbox issue mate

BurstaaHPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

oh well

AutopilotPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

I cant add friends on xbl :L

iPlayDirtyPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Requirement Are all the services up and running again or are there still issues?

you can play online but messages etc wont work

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