5 Year Old Exposes Microsoft Xbox Vulnerability

[J_Allard]

pezus said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
I think the thread title is still misleading.

Most news media have headlines like this:
"Five-year-old boy discovers serious Xbox security flaw and hacks into dad's account"
"Five-year-old hacks Xbox, discovers security flaw"
"5-year-old cracks Xbox One security by discovering simple flaw"

They don't mention Xbox >LIVE<, and I believe that this is correct, because the security flaw was probably not related to XBL, the online service.

That's because they don't realize this has everything to do with LIVE...on XB1. As far as I know, you don't need passwords to log into different XB1 accounts, unless we're talking about Live accounts.

If his father has set up any parental controls or security features, then yes, he'd need to sign in to an adult account and put in the password before he could play certain games. Or, the dad could simply require his password at every login. Either way, more of an account security flaw than anything XBL related, since you don't need access to XBL for any of this to happen.