Xbox outage locks players out of digital games

Microsoft's Xbox experienced an extended outage that prevented players from accessing their digital game libraries. Xbox acknowledged the incident as unacceptable, blaming a licensing authentication service within Microsoft that failed.

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More about the Xbox outage and ensuing damage control. "Van Vliet blamed a licensing service that Xbox relies on to authenticate game permissions which belongs to a different part of Microsoft. “This

mastodon:infosec-exchangeother63d ago kagi ↗

More about the Xbox outage and ensuing damage control. "Van Vliet blamed a licensing service that Xbox relies on to authenticate game permissions which belongs to a different part of Microsoft. “This caused some sign-in scenarios to fail, and it caused many scenarios that require an entitlement check to also fail." "It also affected several of our publishing and store partners who depend on those

Xbox Calls Outage That Locked Digital Games 'Unacceptable' https:// kotaku.com/xbox-swings-into-da mage-control-mode-and-calls-extended-outage-that-locked-players-out-of-their-games-unacceptable-20007

mastodon:fosstodonother63d ago kagi ↗

Xbox Calls Outage That Locked Digital Games 'Unacceptable' https:// kotaku.com/xbox-swings-into-da mage-control-mode-and-calls-extended-outage-that-locked-players-out-of-their-games-unacceptable-2000719748 Bring back physical gaming. Digital leases are a plague and not ownership