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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xAVxPosted:

I think people blow this stuff out of proportion way to much...

LagwagonPosted:

If Anonymous would hack XBOX, there would be a reason. Anonymous is very political about stuff to and xbox did nothing to them or Made the all the gamers on XBOX angry. It was obviously not anonymous!

BurstaaHPosted:

yes i agree with Vlif

PoonPosted:

Im going to be truly honest.... Im honestly not a big fan of this group... I think they abuse their capability's to much like why cant they use it for good instead of this kind of stuff?

OzarPosted:

i never knew about this.

Good job i was not playing yesterday

ThePredaZorPosted:

I could sign in still, I just couldn't add people which really isn't a big deal..

GourmetPosted:

Was wondering why it was down.

DLTPosted:

Drumstep ... so what caused the downtime?


It says routine maintenance but I reckon someone messed up during the maintenance because normally it wouldn't be service affecting.

DreamsPosted:

something goes down and people automatically assume it was hacked

xSHiiFTPosted:

Just looking at the PlayStation community's comments, I'm embarrassed to be a PlayStation user.