So it seems it has been happening for a while, but it is still occurring, but not getting much press it seems. The xbox hacking / microsoft points stealing / Fifa 12 playing problem has been a thorn in my side the past couple weeks.
I logged on to see I had lost 3,000+ MSpoints, and that I had played and got 2 achievements in Fifa 12, which I have never played a fifa game in my life. It also informed me that my profile had last been logged into a previous location. So I called microsoft, and they were open to admitting that this happens, and suspended my account, looked into it, gave me my points back and let me have my account back. The whole thing took a few days, and was all solved.
I chalked it up to "Shit happens", and they did a great job helping me and getting it back, so I wan't too upset by it. They told me they fixed it, and forced a password change on me, and to take it one more step further, I put one of those "click buttons on your controller to log into live" just to be safe.
Advance to one week later (today) I seem to have logged into my profile in another location, my 3,000 points were stolen again, I had one more Fifa 12 achievement, and this time, was getting messages from, I assume, the people who hacked me.
Back on the xbox support line (less happy about it this time) they told me the same things they said last time, they were going to suspend my account and investigate. When I asked if there was any information about this like "why is it always fifa" "what can I do to stop it" and "how can they keep hacking your system" they all said "i dont know, it just happens" which is nice to hear.
I am sure this has been talked about at length in these, and many other's sites, forums, but I figure I would tell one more tale about it to maybe get everyone to think about changing their windows LIVE ID (as they said to me on the phone that this is where the attack is coming from) and maybe cycle your passwords.
Good luck out there.
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