Anonymous not involved in Xbox Live downtime, Microsoft responds.

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.

Posted: Apr 14, 2013 8:14 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/14/xbox-live-currently-encountering-sign-in-issues.aspx

Comments

CygnetPosted: Wed. Apr 17, 2013

Rawrf lol everyone was saying that they took it down. I knew they didnt

Yea I dont understand why they would give a bad name to anon, when most people in anon are gamers and play xbox lul

DanimalsPosted: Wed. Apr 17, 2013

lol everyone was saying that they took it down. I knew they didnt

AzarePosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

Anon has nothing against Microsoft to waste their time.

KillsvsDeathsPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

Thanks god it was not Anonymous

IlIuminatiPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

Bash someone tripped over the wire i bet

I know, they should be a bit more careful lol

BashPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

someone tripped over the wire i bet

IlIuminatiPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

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TGD 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!

Yeh i know they hacked ps3 because of geohot wasnt it?

Yeah, and Sony didn't do much about it.

MTDPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

Yea I know I was fine signing in and out. Pretty cool how they extended double XP cause of this!

SnugPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

I didn't experience any problems so that's ok for me

SCOPosted: Tue. Apr 16, 2013

TGD 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!

Yeh i know they hacked ps3 because of geohot wasnt it?

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