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The Ridiculous Three-Month Ban Of An Innocent Xbox Gamer

12:30PM February 2, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Reclaiming a hacked account is always a nuisance, but Josh Hinkle’s nightmarish story of losing, reclaiming, re-losing, and then re-reclaiming his Xbox Live account takes the cake. More »

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Anonymous Deletes CBS, Universal Sites. Is Xbox Live Next?

7:00AM January 23, 2012 | Owen Good

Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible? More »

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‘Swatting’ Sends Cops To Xbox Live Mod’s House

2:00AM September 11, 2011 | Owen Good

Cops in Sammamish, Washington, are super pissed after being sent to a home here by a 911 call claiming someone inside had claymore mines and hostages. The caller turns out to be a prick seeking revenge on an Xbox Live moderator. More »

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Is Iron Wolf The Next Call Of Duty?

4:40AM August 13, 2011 | Mike Fahey

A pair of hackers that gained access to the Xbox account of a Treyarch employee believes they’ve stumbled across the next entry in the Call of Duty series, code named Iron Wolf. Are they on to something? More »

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Even 10-Year-Olds Are Hacking Video Games Now

3:30PM August 9, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

At this year’s DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas, for the first time kids were invited to take part. And take part they certainly did. More »

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Sony Looking To Win Big At The 2011 Hacking Awards

3:30PM August 3, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The BlackHat USA security conference kicks off later today in Las Vegas, and will be attracting some of the world’s top hackers and online security experts. As part of the festivities, every year an awards night is held called the “Pwnies”. More »

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Lulzsec’s Public Voice Arrested

8:15PM July 28, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

A “spokesperson” for hacking collective Lulzsec, who among other targets hit the online operations of Nintendo and Sony, has been arrested in the United Kingdom. [ZDNet]

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Lulzsec Hackers Call It Quits

4:30AM June 27, 2011 | Owen Good

Whether planned retirement (or, more likely, hounded into disbanding), Lulzsec, the unlovable clowns behind hack operations against BioWare, Sony, Nintendo, EVE Online and Minecraft, ended its brief reign of semi-terror today with its final dump of stolen data, highlighted by 550,000 user names and passwords for the Battlefield Heroes beta of 2009. Another 50,000 users’ data from “random gaming forums” also were published. You can read their self-aggrandizing farewell at the link. [Gawker]

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World’s Most-Wanted Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer

12:30PM June 24, 2011 | gawker

He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent attacks on the CIA, US Senate, Fox and Sony. But when we chatted with a leader of Lulz Security, he said he’s not worried about a thing. [Gawker]

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PS3 Hacker Resigned To Prison Sentence After Money Dries Up

5:30PM June 22, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many working towards the same goal. And while Hotz today walks free, not everybody is so lucky. More »