US authorities charge four men with stealing Xbox, Army tech


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 01 Oct 2014

BUSTED: Prosecutors said the ring hacked into the computer networks of Microsoft and some of its partners between January 2011 and March 2014 to steal source code, technical specifications and other information for the Xbox One gaming console, which had not been released at the time of the attacks. — AFP

WASHINGTON: Four members of an alleged computer hacking ring were charged with stealing more than US$100mil (RM328.13mil) worth of software and data — used to train military pilots and related to Microsoft Corp's Xbox gaming console — the US Justice Department said Tuesday. 

Two of the four — a 28-year-old New Jersey man and a 22-year-old from Canada — pleaded guilty to charges contained in an indictment unsealed earlier in the day, the agency said. 

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