5-year-old boy hacks dad's Xbox account

A San Diego boy has the gambling world's attention when he exposed a security flaw that permit him log into his dad's Xbox Live account, while not permission, on the family's Xbox One console.

"I was like ... yeah!" young Kristoffer Von Hassel same to KGTV-10, a CNN affiliate.

Kristoffer's father, Henry Martyn Robert Davies, detected before long when Christmas that his son was work into his account and taking part in games that weren't acceptable for his age. once he asked however, Kristoffer showed him a hack that appears straightforward looking back however is fairly spectacular considering a 5-year-old found it.

Kristoffer would attend his dad's account and kind in associate incorrect positive identification. that might take him to a positive identification verifications screen, wherever he would merely faucet the key repeatedly then press "enter."

"How impressive is that?" asked Davies, World Health Organization works in on-line security himself. "Just being five years previous and having the ability to search out a vulnerability and latch on to it. i believed that was pretty cool."

He told KGTV that Kristoffer has discovered 3 or four different "hacks," together with obtaining past the lock on a smartphone by holding down the "home" key for long enough.

Dad according the vulnerability to Microsoft. And Microsoft acted, issue a fix for the vulnerability.

"We're forever being attentive to our customers and give thanks them for conveyance problems to our attention," the corporate same in a very written statement. "We take security seriously at Xbox and stuck the problem as before long as we have a tendency to learned concerning it."

The company has even enclosed Kristoffer's name on a listing of security researchers World Health Organization have helped create on-line Microsoft product safer.

For his discovery (or, additional accurately, for coverage it together with his father's help), Kristoffer can receive four games, $50 and a year's subscription to Xbox Live from Microsoft.

Whether a career in laptop security awaits remains to be seen.