Gifted game exploit. Turn on two step and be active.

Turn on two step verification immediately and be active daily.

If you have a “Valuable gamertag”, a lot of enemies or some sort of notoriety, beware being gifted games from random accounts. There is currently an exploit going around online forums involving gaining the personal information of a xbox users account after gifting them a game which I won’t name. When this is done they can log into your account using the personal information gained from the exploit and change your password and do what ever they want on it until you recover it. Another issue comes in for people with “OG Gamertags” The hackers like to use this method to gain access to a account with a valuable gamertag then switch the gamertag to a different account and sell it on gaming threads online. I ran into this method on a small thread on a forum site which I won’t name here. Reading from the people on the thread apparently this works 100% of the time. About 5 days ago someone used this method to breach 3 of my accounts. I was even active the first time it happened, I got a message from Xbox Live notifying me that I had been gifted The game and within 3 hours my gamertag was changed along with my password. I have no idea how to make your account invulnerable to this method but I can only suggest turning on two step verification.

I’ve noticed that a lot of the accounts being taken were only inactive for as little as 2 days. No account taken was showing daily activity via clips, achievements, etc at the time of being compromised.

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