Xbox Awards voting suspended following 'security breach'

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Microsoft may have only announced its inaugural Xbox Entertainment Awards yesterday, but the service has already been hit by problems.

According to MCV, the voting site was the victim of a security breach which resulted in the names, gamertags, emails and birthdays of 2,892 entrants being posted online. Those accessing the site were also reportedly able to edit or remove the listings they saw.

Shortly after this, the site was taken offline for maintenance, while MCV was provided with the following explanation by Microsoft: "We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the Xbox Entertainment Awards landing page and have taken the site offline while we investigate."

This is hardly the first high profile breach in recent times and the extent of the damage isn't yet apparent. We've reached out to Microsoft for comment and will keep you updated as the story develops.

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/396735/xbox-awards-voting-suspended-following-security-breach/

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Ez-Posted:

Is this like Xbox live rewards?
Ive never seen this before lol

CearnsyPosted:

TakeTheDamnPiLL Never heard of this.


Me neither obviously never advertised it enough

ThePredaZorPosted:

Thank god my account has never been leaked, at least it isn't like Ps3 when THOUSANDS of accounts get leaked.

PlusnetPosted:

DSR
M60 Surprised they haven't advertised on Xbox unless i just haven't seen it


I have never seen advertisements on Xbox. Unless YouTube counts


I see them in different places every once in awhile.

CearnsyPosted:

DSR
M60 Surprised they haven't advertised on Xbox unless i just haven't seen it


I have never seen advertisements on Xbox. Unless YouTube counts


Haven't even seen it on Youtube either

ExoticWolfsPosted:

Toll
Poi_Jr Xbox awards? Why wasn't I notified about this?


Never heard about it either


I wen't to Xbox.com a while ago and found out about it. They had it on the dashboard like once, but that was a while ago.

PGAPosted:

DSR
M60 Surprised they haven't advertised on Xbox unless i just haven't seen it


I have never seen advertisements on Xbox. Unless YouTube counts


Yeah, there are never any announcements on Xbox.

NotedPosted:

M60 Surprised they haven't advertised on Xbox unless i just haven't seen it


I have never seen advertisements on Xbox. Unless YouTube counts

CearnsyPosted:

Surprised they haven't advertised on Xbox unless i just haven't seen it

Shea-Posted:

Soulful
DarksydeZach
Dropped
EMT
Adrixn
TomClancy I love how Microsoft failed and people are still bashing PSN just because they got hacked first.


Xbox live did not get hacked. A website owned by Microsoft did.


I don't think xbl has ever gotten put offline before because of hackers


It did a couple of days or so after the Xbox360 was first released.


I feel that was because of high traffic volume not foul play, as for the news post the information taken does not seem to serious but website hacking is a growing problem and where I see it justified in some cases it seems to be the next "hacking" trend with 12 year olds going about it just to be cool.


I think that sounds more like it, it was probably just server problems.


I can also remember it going down Multiple time's in 2008 and 09


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