How to protect your Xbox Live account from being hacked!

:o *shock* quote enlightening.

There's a note for peeps to STRENGTHEN THEIR ACCOUNTS DEFENCES!!! Or simply be as inconspicuous as possible.
 
Pretty scary stuff actually.

I had my account on a friend's Xbox360 that was stolen out of his apartment one night. I had to change all of my online passwords, because Live accounts use MSN accounts, and at the time so did my online banking, paypal, etc.

Now I have them all on separate e-mail accounts with separate passwords and so forth. Live is still tied to MSN though, so if someone were to hack either of those, they could still do some damage.
 
Bump for current relevance.

For anyone who is like TL;DR here's a short summary:

1. Don't answer your secret question with the real answer. Instead, select something completely unrelated (for example, First Pet = Will Tuttle) that you can remember, effectively giving you a second password.

2. In the "address 2" line of your profile, put down: "XBOX SUPPORT DO NOT ASSIST WITH ACCOUNT RECOVERY" to help automatically raise a red flag when a customer support rep looks up your account.

3. If you're planning on gaming away from your default console, put your account on a memory card or move it with your hard drive, as opposed to recovering it on another machine.

4. Never reveal any personal details about yourself while gaming over Xbox Live.

5. On that same note, go ahead and leave your profile's bio blank. No need to tell everyone where you live.

6. Limit the amount of information you put out there for everyone to see on social networking sites...or any website for that matter. Especially ones where you also have your Gamertag listed.

7. Create an Xbox Live passcode if you haven't already. To do this, select "My Xbox" on the Xbox dashboard and go to your profile, then go to "Account Management" then "Xbox Live Pass Code."
 
How to protect your Xbox Live account from being hacked

RandomCap

add me if you wish, I play when I have time. Working over 50 hours a week does kind of suck ha.
 
Hey man, welcome! What games do you play? My GT is iceman288, i play quite a bit of Halo and CoD.


I don't defend my account at all. Probably should, but I carry around my GT on a flashdrive because I play on multiple xboxes, so i dont want things to become more difficult.
 
I've gotten my account hacked before. It really sucked something else lemme tell you. =/ It happened like right after PSN got hacked too, and my dumbass self uses the same stuff for everything.
 
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