What a bunch of douche bags...

All of the passwords are listed on lulzsec's website so you can check if yours is there. I won't link to it but it's not hard to find.

Probably from all the videogame websites they hacked recently. Especially epic. Most people on there had their xbox live username and password linked to the site. If you're using the same password accross several services then you're ripe for the plucking.

Even if they pulled a sony and didn't tell anyone, there is noway they would keep xbox live up and running if a breach had occurred. That would just be crazy.

Lol.all this was, was a website hack not related to anything MS. Then randomly tried to see if people used the same passwords.
Lol at people getting there hopes up that a paid service got hacked.
It ain't gonna happen.

Sony did tell people... Someone is biased and if MS was covering it up taking the network down is the last thing they'd do 

Microsoft is not gonna allow hackers full access to their network just because they want to cover it up. If the hackers got in then there is a security hole and microsoft will take the network down to avoid further damage. It has nothing to do with bias, thats just what any company would do. (same thing that sony did).

MS took  like 5 years to completely and properly redesign the 360 to get rid of it's insanely high failrate so I sincerely doubt they'd shut down to fix their network especially since they get money from it, they'd proabably just try to patch it without taking it down until their schedualed maintainance (which isn't that far away I believe)

There is no way someone actaully believes what you just said.  Every company in the world with a website will bring it down if there is a breach to prevent hackers from gaining further control of the network and from stealing personal information.  It would hurt the company more to keep it up than to take it down so it would be stupid to do even if you hated your customers.

Now I see you have only 9 posts.  An alt?