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That's easy to know, just look up "Xbox Underground" and you'll know what happens when you get caught by the FBI accessing video games developers networks and l
by eloisant 3y ago
That's easy to know, just look up "Xbox Underground" and you'll know what happens when you get caught by the FBI accessing video games developers networks and leaking games:
Short version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Underground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Underground
Long version: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/
In short they got sentenced to 18 to 24 months of prison.
- ericzawo 3y agoA couple of these guys went to my high school! Seemed really overtly harsh.
- jamiek88 3y ago> This culminated in the perpetrators carrying out a physical theft, by using stolen credentials to enter "a secure building" at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters and exiting with publicly unreleased prototypes of the Xbox One codenamed "Durango". Group members say they were driven by a strong curiosity about Microsoft's then-unreleased Xbox One console and associated software. I don’t know, this seems a lot more than ‘hacking’. 18 to 24 months seems about right for that IMO. Typically I am horrified at US sentencing but this doesn’t seem terrible.