Guy got hacked for his recon armor in Halo 3

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Just like the title says, a qoute of the post on his team's forums:http://www.team-vbi.net/teamvbi/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3826&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
We are trying to spread the word!

[quote name='"Skyllus vBi"']My account has been hijacked again. He appearantly took Wraith off my friends list after I had Wraith send some messages to him. Working on getting it recovered once again.

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Statements which I got after contacting him through a Silver alternate account of mine (RoC TheAssassin):

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I feel it is important to point out that this is not a case of someone knowing my password or anything like that. I've changed my pass 3 times in the past month and no-one else knew any of them. It is an exploit/hole in Microsoft's security which is going ignored right now. I would like to see this fixed.

I called 1800-4MY-XBOX regarding the issue and after giving all of my information to one woman, I was tranfered to another man who listened to the issue then proceded to hang up on me. I've also filed support tickets to Windows Live ID twice regarding getting it changed, suggesting that there is some security flaw which allowed for my account to be hijacked, and both times I was only met with the password change form.

Some people lol.

UPDATE LOG WITH MY XBOX LIVE SUPPORT EXPERIENCE

Going to try calling Xbox Live Support again shortly (they should be opening in a bit), although earlier I was given the runaround then hung up on. Also contacted the means I used to get my account back the first 2 times. But ultimately, getting my account back is just a short term solution if it is just one call away from being stolen again. So it is all about getting Microsoft to take notice.
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So currently on the phone with 18004MYXBOX again. Basically, I told them that none of the information is going to possibly match up and that it had been stolen from me. All that I've been told I am able to do is report fraud on the cards and remove the cards from the account (the names on my account do not match the credit card number, due to him changing them, but they are allowing for me to at least remove the card). Worth noting that he will probably have already been able to write down the CC numbers if that is what he wanted to do. She says that she cannot give me any information regarding the account nor provide means for me to take control of the account due to my not having enough (any) information, despite the fact that I was able to identify the two credit card numbers associated with the account.
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I'm on the phone still. Been on for approx 2 hours now working at this. I found it funny how easily they gave me what the fake name he put down for the CC holder was, yet they are supposed to be protecting that information. I can see how multiple calls could yield enough information in order to make for one successful call later. Scary really.
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I've been redirected from billing to the technical department to billing and am now being directed to the technical department again. I've requested to speak to a supervisor six times in total and been told that I would be transfered to one twice (now "going" to the second one).
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Well, I finally got off the phone with Luke from Technical Support and......

Their systems are currently down (said Xbox Live was out as well), and I was instructed to call back in 4 to 6 hours. I was not able to remove the card from my account either due to their systems being down.

Also, he tried to transfer me back to Billing again. I was able to get him to set me up to be able to talk to a supervisor once the service is back up though. But all in all this was the path which they sent me in:

Billing -> Technical Support -> Billing -> Technical Support -> Billing -> Technical Support

Each person along the line listened to the case, took what little information I could give them, and then said "Let me check my resources" then came back to transfer me to the other department. I asked to speak with a supervisor at each set of the chain, insisting multiple times. Final guy tried to transfer me once again to Billing and I told him how ridiculous that was, and that I demanded to speak with a supervisor. He came back with the news that their network is down.

This is absolutely ridiculous.
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NOTE, AT THIS POINT SEVERAL PEOPLE ON BUNGIE FORUMS INFORMED ME THAT I WAS LIED TO AND THAT THEY HAD JUST FINISHED CHANGING CREDIT CARDS/CANCELLING ACCOUNTS, ETC, SO I CALLED BACK RIGHT AWAY
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Well, I guess I'm done with 18004MYXBOX.

They are launching an investigation, and I am supposed to be contacted again within 10 business days.

Hoping that if the right ears hear this we'll actually get some kind of resolution to this. I don't feel comfortable based on the complete lack of evidence they asked me for.
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THANKS to: www.destructoid.com, www.qj.net, www.n4g.com, and the many people who have been helping to keep topics on forums bumped. Please keep spreading this story around and reporting it to news sites.[/quote]
 
Sorry, man. That's terrible. I hope MS gives you back your account, and more importantly, I hope nothing bad CC related results from this.

BTW, have you guys posted this on Digg yet? I'm sure somebody already has, but I just wanted to remind you.
 
I'm not sure if someone has, thanks for the tip! Also, I reccomend reading the original topic. Its a great read, and the hacker is scared out of his mind now. They found out all his personal info, w/ pics.
 
Comning over from the KOTAKU-->TEAM VbI Site-->CAG

I also posted this on gamefaqs...

These little brats are going to get whats coming to them I can promise you...
 
That was a nice read.

Heres to hoping justice is served. The dude talked a lot of shit, and now hes in wayyy deeper than he imagined. :D
 
Wow I am reading this story on the original thread and wow this is entertaining. It really get good in the late teens early 20's pages.
 
I heard about this before.....i can't stop reading this...wow! If he really is in the Air Force, can someone here find out his unit etc? If he was in the Army it'd be easy for me through AKO....i know there's an Air Force guy or two here....This could get him in serious trouble with the Air Force alone, let alone civilian law enforcement.
 
For a noob that doesnt play H3, can anyone say why the recon armor is so great and what it looks like?
Is it like something you can only unlock when you are ranked #1 in MP?
 
Whatever, no sympathy from me. If he had half a brain, he would've had Norton. he didn't, so he got hacked. That's life.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Whatever, no sympathy from me. If he had half a brain, he would've had Norton. he didn't, so he got hacked. That's life.[/QUOTE]

QFT.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Whatever, no sympathy from me. If he had half a brain, he would've had Norton. he didn't, so he got hacked. That's life.[/quote]
You can't hack shit, i gots norton.

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[quote name='Noodle Pirate!']For a noob that doesnt play H3, can anyone say why the recon armor is so great and what it looks like?
Is it like something you can only unlock when you are ranked #1 in MP?[/quote]

It is armor only developers, people at Bungie have. He got it for a crazy video of him shooting himself with his own sniper rifle.

He didn't get hacked. If you do some reading he was just "socially engineered", ie. calling Microsoft CS and getting them to give the password etc in order to get the account. Norton wouldn't have done shit......and people probably can get your account too by using this method. These threads are made so that the news of how easy it is to "hack" someone's account can be spread so that maybe MS will do something about it..........plus it is funny to read how they figured out who did it.
 
[quote name='Wolve11']It is armor only developers, people at Bungie have. He got it for a crazy video of him shooting himself with his own sniper rifle.

He didn't get hacked. If you do some reading he was just "socially engineered", ie. calling Microsoft CS and getting them to give the password etc in order to get the account. Norton wouldn't have done shit......and people probably can get your account too by using this method. These threads are made so that the news of how easy it is to "hack" someone's account can be spread so that maybe MS will do something about it..........plus it is funny to read how they figured out who did it.[/QUOTE]
:lol:
For better or worse, I spent the majority of my evening reading about this. The publicity the situation is getting should result in some quick changes, and hopefully stiff punishment for those involved.
 
When i read about this story I was not happy that MS didn't act sooner.

W/ the LIVE outages, they're really testing my patience. If they really want to be the future middlemen of games they better get their act together, because the best thing that ever happened to online gaming is starting to develop a bad name.
 
[quote name='Apossum']Whatever, no sympathy from me. If he had half a brain, he would've had Norton. he didn't, so he got hacked. That's life.[/QUOTE]
Bitdefender & Smoothwall > Norton *

Norton's AV is decent, kind of. Their firewall is weak though.

[quote name='Wolve11']It is armor only developers, people at Bungie have. He got it for a crazy video of him shooting himself with his own sniper rifle.

He didn't get hacked. If you do some reading he was just "socially engineered", ie. calling Microsoft CS and getting them to give the password etc in order to get the account. Norton wouldn't have done shit......and people probably can get your account too by using this method. These threads are made so that the news of how easy it is to "hack" someone's account can be spread so that maybe MS will do something about it..........plus it is funny to read how they figured out who did it.[/QUOTE]
QFT
 
obviously some of you guys arent getting the norton jokes........just thinking of that thread makes me laugh.
 
[quote name='paz9x']obviously some of you guys arent getting the norton jokes........just thinking of that thread makes me laugh.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, I'm not in the loop on that one.
 
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