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How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI

Posted by timothy on from the we-call-this-the-low-priority-unit dept.

SpacemanukBEJY.53u (3309653) writes Earlier this week, an indictment was unsealed outlining a long list of charges against a group of men that stole intellectual property from gaming companies such as Epic Games, Valve, Activision and Microsoft. An Australian member of the group, Dylan Wheeler, describes how it was betrayed by an informant working for the FBI, which bought a hardware mockup of an Xbox One that the group built using source code stolen from Microsoft's Game Developer Network Portal. The device, which the FBI paid $5,000 for, was supposed to be sent to the Seychelles, but never arrived, which indicated the hacking collective had a mole.

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  1. They didn't accidentally anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Retitle: How an FBI mole stole a pre-release xbox one from hackers.

  2. Re:Yay! by tibit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The cost of the human life is quite small compared to the value of the IP being disclosed here. Sad but true...

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  3. Re:Yay! by Russ1642 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So someone could steal your car, steal your identity, destroy your business with a targeted hack, and you'd be fine with the police not investigating because there are still murderers and rapists out there? Alrighty then. Crime is crime and it all deserves to be investigated. Some crimes are worse but it's not like they put them in order, start with the murderers and completely ignore the rest.