Latest XBL Exploit Takes Aim at User's Credit Cards

[Muco5681]

This is beyond annoying. Why do people feel they have the right to invade the one area of life that feels safe from the outside world? (ignore the fact it's a FPS for a second) First the PSN and now this? Seriously why cant hackers just put their computer knowledge to something useful instead of messing about with something that spreads joy, which they clearly don't have.

we do do that (note I'm not a xbox or ps3 hacker I'm a corporate pen tester tho its almost the same) but one of the first rules of the Internet is -nothing is safe! if you have a console with 20 mill (as a example) users you are painting a fairly big target on your back even if only 10% of the 20 mill have credit cards active
my point is you cant avoid ageing consoles get hacked but what you can do it be aware of mails you get like if you use Gmail right click and press view source if something looks fishy don't open it mark it as a phishing attempt after all its better to be safe then sorry

my last point is we are not all bad people but in all walks of life there are those who chose to do evil instead of do good we cant do anything about this but we can start by not lumping all hackers together

Muco

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

Anyone who still supports hackers after this week... can... go away...

Remember when hackers used to attack things that gamers didn't like?

You guys do realize that there are more than one group of hackers and that most hackers are independent of one another right? You sound as though you believe that "Hackers" is one group of ten guys that run every illegal computer activity in the world.

Jesus how many times am i gonna be quoted on this, Im talking about THESE hackers. I know not all hackers are bad, im talking about these ones. People keep quoting me saying not all hackers are bad, all im trying to say is not all hackers are good.

NO ONE HAS EVER SUPPORTED HACKERS WHO STEAL OTHER PEOPLES MONEY OR IDENTITIES!


that is all

Not true actually:

On this Forum? Find the post and I will concede to your argument.

Read this underneath here:

Nice secure system there Sony. Way to fuck up. At least RRoD only killed your system and didn't give out all your information at the same time.

Oh and I am still supporting the people who did this. How do you leave such a glaring issue in the system without fixing it? Thats asking for trouble. At least now Sony has to get their system together. If it didn't happen now, it was going to somewhere down the line and Sony still would have done nothing about it until then. Great company.

what kind of stupid argument is that... that's like saying you support the 9/11 attacks because it highlighted apparantly not up to scratch airport security.

Two different things first of all, but it did awake the country to the problem. Now Sony is awake to its problem, it failed to protect its information on a massive scale. You don't fuck up more then that.

 

[Adamc-mh]

Ahh thats happened to Cod 4... Damn

 

[godfist88]

this what i feared the most, as society becomes more dependent on the internet the more vulnerable we become when it's been compromised.

well, good thing i buy Microsoft points in person instead of over the net with my credit card.

 

[Leg End]

Good thing I never use credit cards on LIVE. Or play CoD for that matter.

Hey, sorry to bother you with something really off-topic, but mind if I ask which anime your profile picture is from? Thanks.

Black Lagoon.

OT: Um, that is not the case at all, as several of my bros have pointed out. This is Phishing, not "Direct Access To Credit Card Info While In Game". :/

As you are a new contributer, I forgive you this time, but please do not make misleading titles like that in the future. :L

Thank joo.

 

[The Sane]

Perhaps you should actually quote my ENTIRE POST, jackass.

Are you kidding me? Did you have a memory lapse or something where you entirely forgot the fact that you edited half of that post in afterwards? I quoted the entire post as it was when I first saw it too. Am I a jackass too?

 

[Icehearted]

Wow, there's sensationalist journalism and then there's this, I know The Escapists newsroom isn't the most reliable or trustworthy but wow - this is a whole new level of manipulating reality.

Almost seems like there's a full blown coordinated attack at work here. Maybe 'anon' could use it's super powers to find these turds and bring them before the people.

No, this is nothing of the sort, regardless of how much The Escapist is trying to push the angle of "hackers got your details" all the actual story is, is that Microsoft have issued a security warning regarding phishing attempts in Modern Warfare 2. They regularly put out these announcements once activities in games get to high.

Well, yeah, I knew that. i saw this story on two other websites already. i was playing along with how overblown things are... you know, melodrama for melodrama. Truth be told any reaction beyond commons sense precaution at this time seems premature. Still, it is fun watching this whole thing unfold, with politicians in at least two countries jumping in.

Pardon me for being a little amused by these thareics.

 

[teutonicman]

Though I don't play the game it might be wist to remove my credit card from live........

 

[Baradiel]

I can't help think this 'news report' is a fake. It isn't on the front page, there aren't any reliable sources, and the OP isn't a news contributor.

EDIT: It's permalinked. Hadn't noticed that.

 

[D_987]

No, I didn't, actually.

The messages received are not 100% aligned with when posts are quoted. I assure you I quoted the entirety of your post and my points still stand. You can edit it all you want, it doesn't change that fact.

 

[Harry Mason]

*sigh*
What the crap is going on? I never thought Microsoft would let a Phishing scam like this fly so far under their radar. This isn't anywhere on the scale of the PSN thing, but I think everyone needs to crack down a little in the security department.

 

[D_987]

Are you kidding me? Did you have a memory lapse or something where you entirely forgot the fact that you edited half of that post in afterwards? I quoted the entire post as it was when I first saw it too. Am I a jackass too?

He's clearly trolling, just humor the guy.

 

[The Sane]

Are you kidding me? Did you have a memory lapse or something where you entirely forgot the fact that you edited half of that post in afterwards? I quoted the entire post as it was when I first saw it too. Am I a jackass too?

Yes, yes you are.

Maybe you can request time stamps from the Escapist's servers because you care so much about something so trivial.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are also at a really boring office job, and normally something this stupid wouldn't garner your attention, and that you aren't normally some loser sitting in a forum hitting f5 to respond to every post that comes up as soon as it comes up.

Just as a note.. When you edit in some more information put in a quick marker saying 'Edit:' before the info. Just like that extra insult of a paragraph you added to the end of that post.

 

[Mouse_Crouse]

I must admit I am really starting to get annoyed with the News from The Escapist. Honestly guys, I come to the 'news" section for NEWS. Not for some opinion piece. More and more news articles are getting opinions interjected into them. I started to notice more and more bias and opinion recently and thought about commenting, but it is getting to ridiculous levels.

Example by John Funk in a recent News Article (notice it's not game review)
"I'd also say that the difference between the Street Fighter series and the Mortal Kombat series is that one is great and one is mediocre at best, but that's just me."

I'm sorry but I don't care what you think about which game is better, because it's an article about Western Design Philosophy. If I wanted OPINIONS about a game being good or not. I'd find a review. Not an unrelated news article. This kind of stuff has no place in news. And before someone jumps on the "oh you are just a butthurt fanboy" wagon, I have played NEITHER of those 2 fighting games.

Now on to today's news article. This is a great example of what NOT to do. Take facts, exaggerate, call for panic where it's not needed, mislead about other articles, and then call it "news".

No I'm not some hyperbolic "quit the escapist" moron here. Just saying you guys REALLY need to do a better job with your news section. This stuff is misleading at best, harmful at worst.

 

[Canid117]

Anyone who still supports hackers after this week... can... go away...

Remember when hackers used to attack things that gamers didn't like?

You guys do realize that there are more than one group of hackers and that most hackers are independent of one another right? You sound as though you believe that "Hackers" is one group of ten guys that run every illegal computer activity in the world.

Jesus how many times am i gonna be quoted on this, Im talking about THESE hackers. I know not all hackers are bad, im talking about these ones. People keep quoting me saying not all hackers are bad, all im trying to say is not all hackers are good.

NO ONE HAS EVER SUPPORTED HACKERS WHO STEAL OTHER PEOPLES MONEY OR IDENTITIES!


that is all

Not true actually:

On this Forum? Find the post and I will concede to your argument.

Read this underneath here:

Nice secure system there Sony. Way to fuck up. At least RRoD only killed your system and didn't give out all your information at the same time.

Oh and I am still supporting the people who did this. How do you leave such a glaring issue in the system without fixing it? Thats asking for trouble. At least now Sony has to get their system together. If it didn't happen now, it was going to somewhere down the line and Sony still would have done nothing about it until then. Great company.

what kind of stupid argument is that... that's like saying you support the 9/11 attacks because it highlighted apparantly not up to scratch airport security.

Two different things first of all, but it did awake the country to the problem. Now Sony is awake to its problem, it failed to protect its information on a massive scale. You don't fuck up more then that.

Well... you managed to find an absolute dumbass I... I am astounded at his idiocy...


Though you should still word your comment more carefully in the future so that it doesn't sound like you think that all hackers are the same people.

 

[The Sane]

Are you kidding me? Did you have a memory lapse or something where you entirely forgot the fact that you edited half of that post in afterwards? I quoted the entire post as it was when I first saw it too. Am I a jackass too?

He's clearly trolling, just humor the guy.

The humor is all his, I assure you.

 

[Fooz]

FUUUUU------

is this what all that stupid writing on cod is, the people that have {@@} as their clan tag seem to do it

 

[Sparrow]

Gawd-DAMN, is nowhere safe? Soon I'll be getting an email from Nintendo telling me that my Wii has been hacked and is making some Asian kids a fortune.

What the hell is going on?

[HEADING=1]Get to da choppah![/HEADING]

 

[Waaghpowa]

Phishing? You're trying to equate a phishing scam to the recent psn hack?

You need to fix this story because the problem is you're going to feed morons like this guy:

I find this funny after all the Xbox fanboys trying to say "PSN is shit because it's free" and now there's a possibility that their personal info was stolen....on a service they paid for.

Wonder if it's the same people who got the PSN...

Maybe what you want is to be the number one story on playstation fan boy forums and spread misinformation that will have to be dealt with for the next five years across a million social networks. I seriously thought you above playing the Glenn Beck of the internet though.

What I meant was that the Live network is still vulnerable despite the subscription, which some people argued was safer because of it.
Bottom line is, if you're dumb enough to fall for it, you deserve it.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[VanityGirl]

Good thing I never use credit cards on LIVE. Or play CoD for that matter.

If I can, I try not to use credit cards on line period! I get those little gift card things for like MMO subscriptions and stuff. I'm too afraid of this happening. XD