Xbox Live Leaderboards Corrected

Gamasutra reports that a bug that Xbox Live developed over the Holiday weekend has been worked out. From the article: "A short time after this, the vast majority of the missing scores, which were most obvious on Xbox Live Arcade titles such as Hexic and Mutant Storm Reloaded, were restored. [Major Nelson] also noted on his weblog, following reports that the outage might have been related to some kind of user hack: 'What happened was not a result of a hack (or hacks) or anything else security related. This is a bug, plain and simple.'"

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I'm - not sure I believe that

[Dark Paladin]

We know that there was some minor hacking done on the 360 to cheat at Hexic, which caused scores to skyrocket for some players. There was word of another game having the same thing happen (I don't recall the link), so I'm not sure that I buy the "Oh, there was just a bug that's why the scores vanished". More like, they found the problem, fixed it, and don't want to admit that somebody broke a minor security point. It would be better just to say "We found some cheaters, now it's taken care of".