Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Xbox 360 gamers targeted in phishing attack


While everybody is focusing on the extensive outage that hit 77 million PlayStation Network customers all over the globe, it looks like the Xbox Live network hasn't escaped security controversy, either.
Late last week, reports started popping up that a potential phishing scheme had been launched on the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
The Microsoft issue is not as widespread as Sony's drama (the gaming network is still running, which is an obvious clue), but it is serious enough for the company to issue a Service Alert to warn all Xbox Live users of the potential security risk.

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