Xbox API is being abused by hackers to login and steal accounts using brute force

I would remove the image from here.

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Thats not it, I don't have and have never had an EA account. The talk on the web is that they are running brute force scripts against the xbox.com login.

Yeah so this isn't some big flaw like with Sony it's still just hackers brute forcing weak passwords. Why the outrage?

i was referring to rawls with the qwerty password.. he said he had 9 random letters and a number. i'm aware how the brute force progams work with word list. i'm just curious if using a form of captcha would help prevent them from using brute force type progams
on microsofts sites. i'm sure their attacking the site itself to figure out login details. any way you look at it, they need to revamp the way you login to the site and crack down on all these apps that people can use to sign into live messenger and xbox live
accounts on smartphones.. all people are doing is giving out their login details to a third party when they do this.

"Brute Force was an excellent game." ~Bob

LOL. Official XBM, as well as xbox fanboy's on these forums at that time. Hyped Brute Force as being. "The next Halo."

Halo, in all it's various forms is still around. What happened to Brute Force?

It was hogging up space in the bargain bins of GS, as well as KB Toys before they went under. So an "excellent game" it was not.