Xbox Live Boss On Hacking: ‘We Can Beat The Criminals Together’ + MORE

Tom Hopkins
Published on Feb 7, 2012

Xbox Live's general manager has reiterated Microsoft's commitment to gamers' security, saying there is "no evidence of a security breach" to the service - despite on-going evidence to the contrary.
"We take your security and online safety very seriously," Garden wrote in an open letter posted by Major Nelson. "As all of us know, account hijacking across the Internet continues to grow. It’s a thriving – albeit illegal – industry affecting online services the globe over...

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Calls on gamers to help combat account hijackings.

Microsoft is taking "aggressive steps" to combat the recent surge in Xbox Live account hijackings but also needs gamers' help to stamp out cyber-theft, according to the service's general manager.
An open letter from Alex Garden published on Major Nelson's blog today didn't explicitly reference the storied FIFA Ultimate Team exploit but did acknowledge that "account hijacking across the internet continues to grow".
"While we here at Xbox have no evidence of a security breach in the Xbox Live service, that is of little comfort to our members whose accounts have been compromised by malicious and illegal attacks," he wrote...