Hacker group LulzSec has released emails and passwords for some people's Xbox Live account info, among other sites and services.

The group dumped a list of 62,000 emails and passwords on a file sharing site (the list has been taken down multiple times) for accounts of sites and services like Xbox Live, PayPal, WOW, and much more (confirmed on LulzSec's Twitter, even). We've also had one poor reader tell us the credit card attached to his Xbox Live account has already been hit for $100 and the account's password changed.

LulzSec has also been involved in attacks on Nintendo, Minecraft, EVE Online, and (of course) Sony, among others. And for those of you keeping score out there, hactivists Anonymous deal more in denial of service attacks, while exposing user info is one of LulzSec's deals. Whatever the method or rationale, though, it's annoying.

if this is true then MS should release a statement before its too late.

Majornelson on twitter says Xbox Live has not been breached and they don't know where those emails came from.

Phishing most likely.

http://twitter.com/#!/majornelson

Just change your password to be safe, not too hard.
Network was not effected, so don't see the big deal.
Well I guess a big deal for that one guy that screwed, he can just do a chargeback and get his password back by calling them.

Just checked the Lulzsec twitter and website and there doesn't seem to be anything about it, don't see anything on Majornelson's twitter either

Is GI mistaken with the Creativewriting's hack of 62,000 passwords?

Is this it?

http://gizmodo.com/5812545/find-out-if-your-passwords-were-leaked-by-lulzsec-right-here

I've read a few things about this. It seems a third party site got hacked and they posted the email addresses and passwords from that site.  Since many people use the same email and passwords for every site they visit; LulzSec told people to try them on other places to see if they worked. Here is an additional article regarding it:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/06/17/pei-lulzsec-personal-internet-accounts-584.html

Xbox LIVE was not hacked according to Xbox support. After what happened to Sony and many other sites, they would probably inform people immediately, if it did happen.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/f/1234/p/23422/146733.aspx#146733

MS lied about the failrate of the 360 in public statements I wouldn't be surprised if they were covering up a hack seeing how much revenue they get from live