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

StackingPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

I kinda Agree with this But I dont know since Its something Anonymous would do..

Cola59zPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Horizex I haven't noticed any issue we aren't like PSN going offline for months lol!

lmao xD

neboPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

... so what caused the downtime?

ChubbyLumpkinzPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

phatjoe33
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phatjoe33 Down for a few hour's the ps3 fanboy's came out of the woodwork yesterday at least it wasn't down a few month's ..... Just sayin

Says an XBOX fanboy.

Says the kid who is down for months on a crappy console, i was playing all day yesterday

It isn't months for every update. It is 1-2 days, I don't care if it is because I can do other things.

I wasn't talking about an update, I was talking about when psn got hacked it was down months. I'm sure if xbox live was ever hacked the service would be up and running in hours. I'm not a fanboy I own both consoles but what I did do is state fact's. Also if you don't sign into psn a few day's before maitnence you're not going to be able to sign in all day I know from experience. The most time I can remember Xbox being down for me was 24 hours which we were notified of and I only remember it happening once.And I have been on live for 7 year's.

damn now why dont both of you shut up and hug it out now

phatjoe33Posted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

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phatjoe33 Down for a few hour's the ps3 fanboy's came out of the woodwork yesterday at least it wasn't down a few month's ..... Just sayin

Says an XBOX fanboy.

Says the kid who is down for months on a crappy console, i was playing all day yesterday

It isn't months for every update. It is 1-2 days, I don't care if it is because I can do other things.

I wasn't talking about an update, I was talking about when psn got hacked it was down months. I'm sure if xbox live was ever hacked the service would be up and running in hours. I'm not a fanboy I own both consoles but what I did do is state fact's. Also if you don't sign into psn a few day's before maitnence you're not going to be able to sign in all day I know from experience. The most time I can remember Xbox being down for me was 24 hours which we were notified of and I only remember it happening once.And I have been on live for 7 year's.

HorizexPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

I haven't noticed any issue we aren't like PSN going offline for months lol!

AzarePosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

Anybody can post a YT vid, research before you assume.

ToesPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

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John-Lennon 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.

That's why you always ave to look at who uploaded it.

This is very true, there are alot of rumors these days.

Baz_AccentsPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

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WW3 I cant add friends on xbl :L

just a xbox issue mate

i have had 1 issue about comparing GS with friends there game wont pop up yet my friends have had some sending message problems and siging in problems but for the last 3 days every things ok for me i havent had major problems

FamousPosted: Mon. Apr 15, 2013

John-Lennon 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.

That's why you always ave to look at who uploaded it.

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