April 7, 2014 04:58 am GMT
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Five-Year-Old Boy Discovers Microsoft Xbox One Security Flaw
Microsoft has a new security researcher and he's a five-year-old boy from San Diego, Calif.
Kristoffer Von Hassel discovered a security flaw with Microsoft's Xbox One that allowed him to log into his father's account.
Kristoffer's father, Richard Davies, started noticing that Kristoffer was logging into his Xbox Live account and playing video games that were off-limits. When prompted to enter a password, Kristoffer would enter a series of spaces and hit enter, gaining access to his father's account.
"I was like yea!" Kristoffer told KGTV-10, a CNN affiliate, after breaking into his dad's account. Read more...
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