5 Year Old Exposes Microsoft Xbox Vulnerability

[J_Allard]

KylieDog said:

System accounts don't have passwords.

J_Allard said:
Seems he found a security flaw in the Xbox One account system, not anything to do with Live. I am sure the same thing works to log into his account whether he was connected or not.

Or, worked rather. That's the only thing that really matters here, they quickly fixed it.

By quickly you mean this hasn't been discovered for the last 8 years or so and is probably how so any XBox Live accounts been 'hacked' over the years.

You can force a password prompt via the pass key entry, whether the pass key is on there for parental control reasons or simply an extra layer of security you put on there yourself. I would bet the kid failed the pass key and then was prompted for the password and did his trick. Has nothing to do with Xbox Live, don't even have to be connected to do any of it.

And by quickly I mean the general definition most people use: with speed, rapidly, etc etc. Hope that helped.