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Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised

Microsoft says there has been no breach to the security of its Xbox Live service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle “@Reckz0r, wrote on Pastebin that Microsoft stored the login credentials in plain text. The data included email addresses and passwords, he added. Microsoft: “Xbox Live has not been hacked” The hacker has a track record of posting old data on MasterCard and Visa cardholders in the past, including old data from 2008 and 2009. In June, he posted a link on Pastebin to a data dump, writing on Twitter that he had “penetrated 79 large banks””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2133505/microsoft-brushes-off-claim-xbox-live-accounts-were-compromised.html

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