Xbox Awards voting suspended following 'security breach'

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Microsoft may have only announced its inaugural Xbox Entertainment Awards yesterday, but the service has already been hit by problems.

According to MCV, the voting site was the victim of a security breach which resulted in the names, gamertags, emails and birthdays of 2,892 entrants being posted online. Those accessing the site were also reportedly able to edit or remove the listings they saw.

Shortly after this, the site was taken offline for maintenance, while MCV was provided with the following explanation by Microsoft: "We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with the Xbox Entertainment Awards landing page and have taken the site offline while we investigate."

This is hardly the first high profile breach in recent times and the extent of the damage isn't yet apparent. We've reached out to Microsoft for comment and will keep you updated as the story develops.

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/396735/xbox-awards-voting-suspended-following-security-breach/

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EulerPosted:

ever
Relations
Woobie Have they re-done them yet?


Nope, didn't hear of a new event :D They should do it soon though..


I hope they do it soon!


I want there to be another, not sure if I missed one or not though

EulerPosted:

Maya
Smurfs
Drumstep
Twerk They need to get better security, then they would have to worry about this.


compared to psn they do have good security


Yeah, I agree, they do have better security than PSN.


Oh yeah that's for sure.


The PSN security is truly awful! They really need to make it better..

EulerPosted:

PGA
Ioway wouldn't expect something like this


Yeah, Xbox would be the last thing I would think to be "hacked"


Yeah me too, just shows you what hackers can do i suppose

PGAPosted:

Ioway wouldn't expect something like this


Yeah, Xbox would be the last thing I would think to be "hacked"

KelcyPosted:

wouldn't expect something like this

Soldier_Posted:

Smurfs
Drumstep
Twerk They need to get better security, then they would have to worry about this.


compared to psn they do have good security


Yeah, I agree, they do have better security than PSN.


Oh yeah that's for sure.

SmurfsPosted:

Drumstep
Twerk They need to get better security, then they would have to worry about this.


compared to psn they do have good security


Yeah, I agree, they do have better security than PSN.

neboPosted:

Twerk They need to get better security, then they would have to worry about this.


compared to psn they do have good security

LurkPosted:

They need to get better security, then they would have to worry about this.

neboPosted:

TTG_Negative
Drumstep
Wooble there team is awful


Their* And yes, they need to step up their security now.


its going to turn into world war 7


but the 3rd one hasn't even happened yet...


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