Microsoft owns up to Xbox Live

Months after Xbox Live users began complaining of hacked accounts, Microsoft yesterday admitted that the service's support staff is at fault, victims of "'pretexting" calls by identity thieves.

As recently as Friday, the company was saying only that it had "found no evidence" of a data breach, and that any thefts had occurred could be blamed on users giving out personal information.

That assertion changed yesterday. Read the article HERE.