http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/microsoft-xbox-live-hack/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 21 May 2013 20:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/microsoft-xbox-live-hack/#comment-50768 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:01:19 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=702836#comment-50768 Reblogged this on gabriel catalano and commented:
Microsoft responded saying that it does not use social security number in its Xbox Live accounts, but that the hackers were effectively “daisy-chaining” by social engineering one of Microsoft’s partners (see: “affiliated companies in the statement above) and gaining enough information to bypass Microsoft’s “security proofs” or the information it collects to make sure you are who you say you are.

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