Even though the consoles had been restored to factory settings, security researchers at Drexel University and Dakota State University were able to easily find credit card and other personal info.
Ashley Podhradsky, Rob D'Ovidio, and Cindy Casey of Drexel University, along with Pat Engebretson at Dakota State University purchased a refurbished Xbox 360 from a Microsoft-authorized retailer ... [ read the full article ]
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I am interested in how this can be since no Credit Card or account data is saved on the XBOX when it comes to payment info anyway. I read that Microsoft is investigating the issue. This is always a risk when you sell or get rid of your old technology. If they are getting it from the hard drive I guess the whole rule of keeping the hard drive or using a secure wipe method applies to consoles then too. Unfortunately doing it to the console would make the hard drive useless unless it somehow can be reflashed to work with the console again.
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Originally posted by Mysttic: There are ways to format the drive to the point data can't be recovered...
Only partially true. In fact, the original data CAN, much of the time, be recovered, even after a multipass "wipe". This, however, is expensive (once you get past 10 wipe passes or so), so really is not an issue for fraud prevention.
Edit --> To put this in perspective, important data has been successfully recovered from HD platters that had been shattered with a hammer. Data forensics techniques can be startlingly successful.
Originally posted by jking501: I always just go to a actual store to get my xbox gold membership for the year, that way I never have to enter my financial info.
