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Hacking group Anonymous has Xbox Live in its sights

Xbox Live is on the Anonmyous “Hit List”.

Hacking group Anonymous has Xbox Live in its sights

The hacking group Anonymous has recently issued a threat against the Xbox Live service following their declaration of a stance against the recent government shutdown of file sharing site, Megaupload.com.

The hacking group which took down the PlayStation Network in 2011, has issued demands to the Department of Justice. In them, the group is demanding that MegaUpload be restored within a 72 hour window.

Microsoft has not commented on the recent threats, but if users experience outages over the next few days, it'll be hard to point the finger at anyone else other than the hacking group.

Microsoft has recently been dealing with a rash of brute force hacking attacks on the Xbox Live community, how they'll deal with this new threat, we'll have to wait and see.

By on January 21, 2012
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17 COMMENTS
  • avatar
    Paul
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    I blame Allen and his husband. Who’s with me?

    • avatar
      That Guy

      dont blame yourself, its not your fault.

    • avatar
      hoppsy

      ha ha ha owned

  • avatar
    Jimmer
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    Coming from a PlayStation fanboy, please don’t. There are bigger fish to fry. It’s stuff like this that really helps you pinpoint who anonymous really supports. But hey they are anonymous. They are legion. Garbage. They’re garbage.

  • avatar
    Bacon
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    “GAMERS ASSEMBLE!!!” :-D

  • avatar
    Anonymous Tom
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    So, they are going after Microsoft, even though MS has nothing to do with Megaupload or it’s shutdown? God, these fucking losers. Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t have enough “1337 haxorz skillz” to actually go after those who shutdown Megaupload in the first place? Them being the US government?

    • avatar
      That Guy

      yeah what are they gonna do, hack the pentagon? thats pretty damn impossible. hack the twitter accounts of the senators? that wouldnt do much. causing collateral is the best way to get someones attention.

  • avatar
    reality
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    Well this makes no sense at all. Live is being targeted for NOT agreeing with Megaupload being taken down? Seems a little off. The PSN hack happened because Sony wasn’t properly securing their network at all. So, is this a typo? Doesn’t seem to fall in line with what Anonymous sets out to do. Very odd.

  • avatar
    hoppsy
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    just me who finds this hilarious after all the shit we got from xbox fan boys when ps3 got hacked?

    oh and @reality,, you are totally retarded

    • avatar
      Cool dude

      Really? So do you think that getting hacked is funny?

      oh and @hoppsy,, you are totally retarded

    • avatar
      Hoppsy

      I didn’t say getting hacked was funny, I do find it hilarious that the tables have turned and now all the people who where so petty about the psn hack will get a taste of their own medicine.

      As it happens i don’t think they will attack Live, they lost to much public support when they attacked psn and wont want to risk that again…if they have any sense.

  • avatar
    cheesewaffle1
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    why does everyone fanboy these bullies? sure what they are doing is just, but how they do it makes everyone pissed as hell at them. I am a hardcore Xbox fan… don’t take it away from me, please?

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    reality
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    Oh that’s right, Sony was 110% innocent, they never fired their network security team, or used an out of date browser, or apologized to us for feeling something instead of admitting they could of easily done a better job.
    Completely forgot that you Sony fucktards believe every little thing they tell you all because the Piece of Shit Network is free.
    Also, you shouldn’t call yourself retarded, that’s self destructive and not very healthy.

    • avatar
      Hoppsy

      No reality, you are a retard becase you make statements before you think and comment on things you dont understand and have zero knowledge of.

      I actually can’t be botherd to pick apart your comment. its pointless, you never learn.

  • avatar
    bozmanbeyond
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    I say bring it on Anonymous. I would love to see how tough MS is. Wait…. I think my credit card info is linked to my gamertag. NOT!! only a moron would do that.

  • avatar
    reality
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    Or maybe you won’t because you can’t.

    • avatar
      Hoppsy

      really? you really want me to?