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For the second time this year Microsoft has been forced to issue a statement insisting that Xbox Live is safe. The claims relate to allegations from US gamer Jason Coutee that a workaround exists that allows people to obtain a user ID confirmation from Xbox Live and then an unlimited …

There has been no breach to the security of our Xbox Live service.” That’s the simple message from Microsoft today in response to fresh claims last week about security problems with its online content network. And, as it did last year in response to a story in UK newspaper The …

A month and a half on from Microsoft’s assurances that hackers are not accessing Xbox Live customer details, fresh evidence has appeared suggesting that a problem persists. In November 2010 UK newspaper The Sun ran a front page story focusing on the alleged hack, though Microsoft quickly moved to dismiss …

No personal information was accessed following the recent security breach of Square Enix member servers in Japan and North America. This is despite the publisher revealing last week that up to 1.8 million accounts may have been compromised, with information including customer names, phone numbers and e-mails. As a result, …

The personal details of around 1.8m North American and Japanese customers of Square Enix could have been compromised in a recent web hack, the publisher has admitted. A server containing details of 1m Japanese members and 800k North American users of the Square Enix Members service was accessed in the …

The North American and Japanese versions of the Square Enix Members websites have been taken offline following a suspected security breach. Square Enix is currently trying to determine if any personal information has been compromised. We have reason to believe that unknown parties may have gained unauthorized access to a …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to the latest claims from UK newspaper The Sun, insisting for a second time that Xbox Live has most certainly not been hacked. The assurance comes despite ongoing claims from The Sun that users have not succumb merely to a phishing scam. Indeed, …

UK national newspaper The Sun is not sitting down in its campaign about alleged Xbox Live hacking. Earlier this week The Sun ran a story on the front page claiming that users of Xbox Live were seeing their accounts hacked and money stolen. Microsoft responded by denying any talk of …

UK national newspaper The Sun has this morning given front page space to a story concerning a phishing scam that has affected Xbox Live users. It’s not a hack”, though the opening paragraph strategically uses the word to give that impression. What the paper is in fact referencing is a …

Valve has confirmed rumours circulating earlier this week that hackers have compromised the Steam network and, most worryingly, a database of information and personal data was compromised. A plundered Steam database, managed by games giant Valve, contains information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing …