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April 7, 2014 04:58 am GMT

Five-Year-Old Boy Discovers Microsoft Xbox One Security Flaw

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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.

See also: SmartGlass Is Now a Universal Remote for Xbox One

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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