*Entry Title: *WHID 2011-62: Another Xbox Live director hacked!
*WHID ID: *2011-62
*Date Occurred: *April 6, 2011
*Attack Method: *Social Engineering
*Application Weakness: *Insufficient Process Validation
*Outcome: *Account Takeover
*Attacked Entity Field: *Entertainment
*Attacked Entity Geography: *
*Incident Description: *A hacker known as “Predator” has been able to phish
information from Xbox Live’s Director of Policy and Enforcement, Stephen
Toulouse (aka “Stepto”), gaining email and address information via his
personal website server and was then able to alter the Chief’s details
online.
*Mass Attack: *No
*Reference: *http://blog.gadgethelpline.com/xbox-live-director-hacked/
Attack Source Geography:
Ryan,
http://www.networksolutions.com/, rather than Stepto, was social
engineered and subsequently his DNS records were modified by
"PredatorSik" and the password reset to Stepto's X-BOX LIVE Account.
BTW, his handle is "PredatorSik" not "Predator" i.e.
http://twitter.com/#!/PredatorSik
YouTube URLs (now removed)
http://www.youtube.com/v/ryfZv_qq7Uk
http://www.youtube.com/v/f_jDglN0wVs
Mirror of the YouTube Video
http://www.tarreo.com/noticias/12607/Roban-la-cuenta-del-jefe-de-Politicas-de-Xbox-LIVE/
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:13 PM, WASC Web Hacking Incidents Database
wasc-whid@lists.webappsec.org wrote:
Entry Title: WHID 2011-62: Another Xbox Live director hacked!
WHID ID: 2011-62
Date Occurred: April 6, 2011
Attack Method: Social Engineering
Application Weakness: Insufficient Process Validation
Outcome: Account Takeover
Attacked Entity Field: Entertainment
Attacked Entity Geography:
Incident Description: A hacker known as “Predator” has been able to phish
information from Xbox Live’s Director of Policy and Enforcement, Stephen
Toulouse (aka “Stepto”), gaining email and address information via his
personal website server and was then able to alter the Chief’s details
online.
Mass Attack: No
Reference: http://blog.gadgethelpline.com/xbox-live-director-hacked/
Attack Source Geography:
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Regards,
Christian Heinrich