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

lol that is a cool story! Thanks for posting!

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.

But did he hack Xbox Live?  I mean from what I see, the kid logged into his father's account.  That's pretty much like saying your girlfriend hacked the internet because she figured out the password to your phone was "0000" and she read your email.

Didn't he more or less punch random spaces in a password or user box and go in the back? Kinda like when kids pres "000" and end up calling 911 with their parents' phone.

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.

That kid is a genius with a bright future ahead of him!

As I get it, the security flaw allows bypassing the account authorization process on the local system. That doesn't appear to be directly related with XBL, even if this only applies to XBL accounts because other accounts don't have a password anyway.

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.

Actually it has nothing to do with Live. Its a securitty feature that stops his kids playing rated games. Which works offline. So yes the thread title is 100% wrong.