A family in Florida, USA was woken up by police with guns surrounding their house in the middle of the night. This terrifying and potentially scarring event is brought to you by Microsoft Xbox.
WFTV reports that the cops and family were the victims of a hacker hoax conducted on an Xbox at another house in town. How does that work? Hackers busted into a teenager’s Xbox demanding information about a computer game, and when he wouldn’t help them, the internet criminals used his account to file a false report about a murder and hostage situation. The cops traced the account to the address on record, which was out of date—thus, the unsuspecting and terrified family.
Ooops! Please remember to keep your accounts up to date, friends, so that when you’re held hostage, the police know where your Xbox is. [WFTV]













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An family?
It is the right of all people to be grammatically incorrect.
Gizmodo fail english? Thats unpossible!
An family!! Grinds my gears!
Sorry about that. It grinds my gears too
..And now here’s Ollie Williams with the Blackuweather Forecast. Ollie?
IT’S GON’ RAIN!
It’s the newest meme following an hero.
Nothing can bring me down, My Nexus 4 is out for delivery.
Except the fact that they haven’t sold out
I have ordered 2 to sell one, lucklily CeX are still buying for £344.00
Better get it in quick then
I know, I keep looking on CeX website, they are still at £344.
I should have them by tonight so I’m going to send on off ASAP to them, hopefully they will stick to their word and give me £344
I’m hoping mine is just around the bend. It’s not doing me any good reading all these contributors boasting they’ve already received theirs.
Yea, haha, I’ve got mine at home now, just got the text
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Cant wait to see it.
I’m still waiting. A TNT van came in earlier but no phone for me
It would have been nice to have it before the weekend.
“Hackers busted into a teenager’s Xbox demanding information about a computer game, and when he wouldn’t help them”
What? What am I reading here?
It’s a bit Lawnmower man, isn’t it?