{"id":11355,"date":"2014-04-07T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T08:56:08","slug":"5-year-old-boy-hacks-dads-xbox-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old boy hacks dad’s Xbox account"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kristoffer<\/a>
Kristoffer Von Hassel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hacking your Xbox: So easy, even a 5-year-old could do it?<\/p>\n

A San Diego boy has the gaming world’s attention after he exposed a security flaw that let him log into his dad’s Xbox Live account, without permission, on the family’s Xbox One console.<\/p>\n

“I was like … yeah!” young Kristoffer Von Hassel\u00a0said to KGTV-10<\/a>, a CNN affiliate.<\/p>\n

Kristoffer’s father, Robert Davies, noticed soon after Christmas that his son was logging into his account and playing games that weren’t appropriate for his age. When he asked how, Kristoffer showed him a hack that seems simple in retrospect but is fairly impressive considering a 5-year-old found it.<\/p>\n

Kristoffer would go to his dad’s account and type in an incorrect password. That would take him to a password verifications screen, where he would simply tap the space bar repeatedly and then press “enter.”<\/p>\n

“How awesome is that?” asked Davies, who works in online security himself. “Just being 5 years old and being able to find a vulnerability and latch on to that. I thought that was pretty cool.”<\/p>\n

He told KGTV that Kristoffer has figured out three or four other “hacks,” including getting past the lock on a smartphone by holding down the “home” key for long enough.<\/p>\n

Dad reported the vulnerability to Microsoft. And Microsoft acted, issuing a fix for the vulnerability.<\/p>\n

“We’re always listening to our customers and thank them for bringing issues to our attention,” the company said in a written statement. “We take security seriously at Xbox and fixed the issue as soon as we learned about it.”<\/p>\n

The company has even included Kristoffer’s name on\u00a0a list of security researchers<\/a>\u00a0who have helped make online Microsoft products safer.<\/p>\n

For his discovery (or, more accurately, for reporting it with his father’s help), Kristoffer will receive four games, $50 and a year’s subscription to Xbox Live from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Whether a career in computer security awaits remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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