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If a service provider decides to terminate user accounts, they should be required by law to provide a refund for any licenses to software which are still valid.

Between the PS5 soldered on SSD and MS locking their SSD using an encrypted partition on their SSD, it’s more important than ever that right to repair legislation gets passed.

Thank you for making a video to bring more attention to this issue! Hopefully Microsoft puts out a fix soon.

They need to reinstate and compensate any and everyone affected by this after they fix the issue. If they refuse to they should be sued by everyone affected cause it’s insane that someone could loose their account of many years like that and not have done anything wrong. Nobody wants to hear any excuse on why they can’t reinstate any unfairly banned accounts, the moment they put out a statement like that is the moment all the lawsuits need to start being filed

I'm so glad you are covering this and I hope more people talk about this. Something like this shouldn't even exist to the point where you lose all your games

This is why you never join random Xbox parties, too much shit can go wrong.

It still amazes me how MS and Sony got away with being legally able to ban a console. That's basically remotely bricking hardware that I paid money for.

As someone who plays GTA Online on Xbox and has thousands of dollars invested into digital games on it, this has really been making me nervous, I've also noticed an increase in party invites from random people, they better get this fixed soon.

They just bricked Setise his entire console itself as well, he came back from a holiday and now he can't even use his console!

I question why they do not have a delete queue at minimum so they can take the time to individually review these, or a system to detect suspicious reporting, such as flagging someone who just got several reports at once as a potential false report to be reviewed? i think giving the user the benefit of the doubt would be a much better system.

Theres always been a problem with people being able to grab your ip if you join a party, this is even worse though. hopefully Microsoft can do something about these problems.

What? Back in the day, Microsoft was all about security and privacy. The fact that something like this could happen to Microsoft in this modern age of technology is absolutely outrageous. I dont usually go in xbox parties, but now I know I won't be going in any at all if I'm given an invite.

This has been a known issue. If you ever - EVER - have someone trying to invite you to a random party or if someone is beefed off with you from a game of DBD and invites you never accept because they can do stuff like this.

If you by chance see this Muta, could you take a look at the COD security issues, making it unsafe to play older and some newer games online/multiplayer. I believe it is an issue involving RCE. It's especially plaguing the zombies community

I think I almost had this happen to me. I was playing Amogus when someone joined, locked the entire party from leaving and started saying very racial and homophobic slurs. I was able to exit the party by completely plugging my xbox off and rebooting it. I'm now stopping my normal sessions until this exploit is fixed :)

Thanks for bringing awareness to this issue even tho I'm not on Xbox it's still a crazy problem 😢

As someone who has been banned from a hacker you do lose all the stuff you purchased. I can't even download my old account that has all my stuff I paid for on it anymore. This is why I prefer physical media over digital cause all that money wasted and gone.

I’m ‘Appearing Offline’, playing in ‘Invite Only’ lobbies and avoiding interacting with anyone. My life remains unchanged.

Glad this BS is finally being addressed hopefully the victims of this get unbanned and these assholes get perma ban in return

A bot that handles reports not automatically flagging a rate of reports that would exceed the maximum possible number of people played with within a short period, is beyond unreasonably negligent. Oh yes, 1000 reports in 1 hour, when the account is playing a game that can't have more than 16 people per match, and has only played 6 matches in this time. Totally real. Any report not coming from an account that has played with your account or receieved communication from your account should be automatically dismissed. And result in the false reporting account being the one penalised.

seems like everything is getting hacked nowadays💀

It seems odd that Muta would buy digital games, with him being a big supporter of game preservation. This video is a great example of why physical media is important for preservation.

xbox party chat historically was always a way for hackers to get access to your ip if you joined one of their parties back in the xbox 360 days (I think it those were peer-to-peer connections).

the fact that a multi billion dollar company cant fix a issue this big is concerning

I remember getting banned in halo 4 playing regicide online with a friend and 6 afk controllers farming assassinations for venator armor, kept the armor and got unbanned 3 days later, favorite memory with my middle school friend, miss ya James

Wild. I'm no longer joining random teammates party invites. Sad. I've met solid ppl throughout the years.

A few years ago when you could use certain free websites to DDOS players (I assume you still can, but the website I used to use was ceased by the FBI), I decided to look into how to potentially get IP addresses from people's gamertags, thinking to myself "it would be such bullshit if it were easy to do that". Lo and behold, a free website for that existed. I tested it with a friend, they told me their IP so I'd know if it was actually giving me the correct one, and it somehow did. This didn't work for anywhere near every gamertag, I imagine getting IP addresses from gamertags isn't exactly the most efficient way to do that, but it's such bullshit that I was able to do that at all and I think that speaks volumes for Xbox's security on that front. I hate that exploits like what's in the video exist, and I especially hate that the shitty free exploits I was using exists/existed because it didn't take any actual brain power to use.

This is why I never mess with the Xbox party chats even when 360 is around I never touch it. Even replying to people on Xbox message app. I am rarely gonna reply to you unless your my friend. Cause stuff like this worrys me due to having the same account I had since 15 so loosing all my years of games saves and achievements etc gone. Is insane Edit: this is 100% Microsoft need to look into it and put a serious heavy sue against them.

Some people in Ghilliemasters comments are saying its been patched the original maker has been hardware banned and some say that the person is still selling the tool for profit IDK who to trust right now.

As an Xbox player I say this: SET PARTY TO INVITE ONLY. It stops a bunch of this right there

Just a heads up in regards to the Xbox Retail Emulation bans, there are only 2 people that have received permanent console/account suspensions, one of those is myself (I'm one of the people behind it) so because I had used an emulator on Retail mode one time in early July (Using an alt account) Microsoft have perma-banned my console and every account on that console, effectively revoking my access to 827 games, a close to 2 decade old account with almost 400,000 Gamerscore and completely banning my console outright leaving me with a fairly expensive paper-weight 🙃

It is very simple to set up a report on Microsoft saying your account is stolen. They will lock it without hesitation. Getting it back is almost impossible. Edit: this has been happening for years now. It’s a known method. Only way of actually getting back is information you most likely haven’t saved (original Ip address, date of birth on account, etc)

The scary part about it, is that people who somehow have access to this tool. They don't even need to be in your Xbox party, they can be on their desktop, and they can find your party id, and they can see whos in it, they can hear everyone, they can see what games they are playing, they can see if it's invite only or not, they can even crash the party with a click of a button. This tool is deadly, not only that, I'm in a Discord server, these people aren't stupid, they are really intelligent, from modding, to actually taking apart the gaming system, putting new tech chips into it, and running it with some scripts. There are over 182 of them

Xbox security is just like gta online security

Thank you. Been waiting for this since I found out about the exploit. Always love hearing your take on things and you explained it really well. I hope the more creators take notice of this mod menu exploit, I tried bringing it to Luke Stephens attention earlier but he doesn't know about it. He only knows about the emulator part & he ignored my comments after quickly going over the emulator bans.

They've been doing this for quite some time actually. And yes you're right on the dollar, people have been abusing the API for a long time.

Congratulations to DarkViper for being a GTA 6 voice actor.

I’m completely disappointed with Microsoft here. I refuse to play any Xbox games until this issue is resolved

Digital only consoles shouldn't exist for this reason exactly, someone can just get you banned and you lose access to all your games. With physical disks at least you still have your games.

Thank you for covering this my friend. Let's go

This is very interesting, I actually assumed this would be about the RCE Vulns on the COD's that they recently revived.

in the EU it is mandatory upon your request to make the company have a human involved in the loop, but you gotta know and ask for it tho also you can get them to not take "automated decisions" again opt out. but if you know you can do it and shit like this shouldn't on paper be able to do anything to ou. but if the company's adhere to you r requests is another thing

*Sony is facing the same issue right now!* I've had friends on PSN in the last few hours get their accounts mass-reported and/or banned for X years or permbanned by malicious attacks like this. If you wish to remedy this issue on any platform: - Block _any_ players you find suspicious of targeting you for report attacks and keep out of any and all parties associated with them. - Keep profile visibility to either _close, trusted friends,_ or nobody at all. The less visible you are to potential attackers, the less likely you are to get hit.

I feel like this has always been around, Had a lot of instances in Overwatch where the enemy team would invite our team to a party and if you joined they crashed you mid competetive game and they'd climb up

Can be painful trying to deal with these companies too. I had my PS account banned back when Playstation/Sony had that huge 2011 data breach. Someone accessed my account in a COD game (which I don't play on PS) and did something to warrant a ban. I spoke with Playstation who confirmed unusual activity and new console registered and stated the offending console is banned, to which I stated I can still access online through other accounts. Playstation quoted terms and conditions that it was my fault the account was compromised and I should be happy the offending console is at least banned. That it doesn't matter who violates the terms primary user or otherwise. I spoke with a manager and same response, I highlighted the recent data breach and the manager stated that never happened. I asked for money back as I had upwards of £1000+ spent on the account. Nothing! So I am now a XBOX/PC/Switch player and try to avoid touching my Playstation 5 at all.

Never accept random party invites and only go into a party with your friends and you're safe. Common sense people. Use it.

This is off topic but this happened to me once and never looked up if anyone else had this happened to them. Around 2010-2011 after Halo Reach and Black Ops released I was just vibin around the dashboard and randomly hear the party chat notification that I connected. I then quickly press the Xbox menu while I hear two ladies/females confused and asked why I joined their party. I didn’t know them or know how in the heck I joined and they also sounded hella annoyed a 12 year old like me wanted to ruin their fun 😔 if anyone had this happened to them or got an explanation I’m all ears.

Honestly it sucks that people can abuse the system. I got spam reported by a bunch of losers and they got my console banned. Where I lost the money that I had in my Microsoft account all of my DLCs and paid games I wasn't allowed to sign into KZfaq or any apps the built-in store would give me an error when I would load it up and they did this to me on two different Xboxes. Also I cannot access the account and they automatically removed it from my Microsoft Family.

As a watcher of both SOG and DarkViperAu im glad that mudahar got the fact that he is infact a GTA VI Voice Actor

Why is it that anything account related (resets, kick, bans) have to link back to GTA online?

I brought a used Nintendo Switch once, all I was told is it was on a very old firmware. I signed in, logged into my wifi and had a browse through the console and called it a night. Next morning im perma banned and now have no access to any of my online games or physical games. No problem, ill ring support, they were very nice, apologetic and told me they would get me unbanned straight away and to update to official firmware immediately as likely it had something unofficial on it. Asked for the console serial number and realized I am EU and not US. EU support took 5 minutes to decide nope, your perma banned and left a note never to unban my account. I now own a Nintendo Switch that can only be used via CFW to play games. Good job Nintendo, never spent another penny with them again. Things like this should be illegal, I had close to £1000 spent on physical and digital games that I can no longer legally access.

That's a horrible abuse of the Xbox Live system. I can only hope that this gets fixed with added security so random people can't get permanently banned due to someone's degenerate behaviour. Also yes, in regards Today appealed process. RealHumans should be involved in reinstating accounts instead of using bots.

And I just downloaded gta v to try it again. Uninstalling it and just sticking to gta 4

"God forbid if you ever enter this landfill" got me good

I haven’t been banned or anything like that but I just randomly lost access to a bunch of dlcs the other day. over $100 worth of dlcs just vanished from my order history. after doing some research I’ve found that it’s actually a fairly common issue and Microsoft has done nothing about it. Microsoft’s idea of customer support is just “give them the run around until they stop bugging us.” there’s also another issue with the xbox microsoft store where you get an “oops please try that again” error after trying to purchase something, but the transaction actually goes through every time. people have actually drained their account with the same purchase over and over again because of this and they have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get their refund. it’s honestly just blatant theft.

GTA doesn’t ban people. I have a buddy who has given himself billions of fake gta dollars over the years and he still has his original acc. Main reason why I stopped playing lol. You can’t enjoy the game for any amount of time before a modder who has only been playing for a year comes in and trashed you with the best tools the game can offer. That’s best case scenario. Most of the time you play gta is just waiting for loading screens cause you have to lobby hop every 30 mins to avoid hackers. The p2p servers are embarrassing for a company like Rockstar. Still play gta online every once and awhile. But I always just turn the game off when I headshot someone with a sniper rifle and they turn around and murder me.

Alright here's two things I don't understand, 1) Why is console ban a thing and 2) How tf do they let this happen, this is seriously ridiculous. PlayStation gonna have a field day with sales if this doesn't get fixed

Guys this can only happen to you in an Xbox party. They can’t just do it from your gamer tag. Just don’t join randoms and don’t partake in shady stuff.

A friend of mine got perma banned in the 360 era. He was big into digital downloads. Movies, games, shows, etc. He lost access to everything, thousands of doll hairs down the drain.

Stuff like this is why I don't accept party invites. If you're an asshole trying to ban people on Xbox, you should be removed for your crimes. As an Xbox user, I have a right to refuse an invite. Y'all should keep that in mind.

Okay so it only affects xbox partys for the hackers to get into. Good thing i dont do partys on xbox but instead duscord

Thank you for your enlightening videos Muta we now partake in a discussion regarding the future of Winrar and you have guided us and been a source of inspiration on this path

So this is why I've been getting party invites from randoms. Good thing that I've been just ignoring them.

Take this from me who got perm banned on Xbox in 2017 March, they take away access of everything, but you can access the games if the account is homed to said Xbox.

Whoever caused this exploit needs to be in prison

As a 30 year old man with no kids and a long xbox history, im confident losing my account would be like speedrunning crying. Id be bawling so fast 😂

I've been permabanned for an unrelated matter!! You lose EVERYTHING!!! You can't even log in to your account!!!

I always say this to online trolls. If you wake up in the morning and the highlight of your day is trying to ruin someone else’s fun you are one of the saddest kinds of people

makes sense as last night some drunk nerd in an xbox RP lobby kept saying he was gonna “add people to the list” if they talked when they weren’t asked. his “list” was what he said was a ban list. he was claiming to be a rockstar staff member too.

I remember a similar thing happening on 360. A guy that knew one of my friends joined my party and told me my address and banned me for a day to be a dick. Good to see they didn't do shit to fix it 10 years and 2 consoles later.

Imagine being so limpdicked as to try and get people banned for literally no reason other than simply because you've got nothing better to do To any of those kinds of hackers doing this crap right now, do us all a favor and PLEASE find something better to do with your life, literally anything Dare I even say, touch grass

They don’t even need to be in a party for it. They just need to know your gamer tag. That’s all it takes. Being in a party just makes it easier

Can confirm getting a permaban voids everything on the account, happened to me when I was younger.. very expensive mistake lol

wait why we hating on winrar? is there something im missing, isnt rar the most common compression format for torrents etc?

These hackers need to be stopped. I bet they didn't even pay for WinRAR. It's not free, don't forget!

Some dude tried to invite me to his party and I don’t usually join parties, so thank god I dodged a bullet there. Idk if he was one of these guys, but I’m pretty confident he was one because his level in GTA online was over 7000

I'm hoping they could disable the parties for the Xbox apps on phones and PCs, until they can get a fix for it

I was banned on playstation a few years back and i had put way too much money into digital games, the way Playstation works is that you own a license that lets you play your games it shouldn't expire if you're connected to the psn server but when you're banned your blocked from renewing your license or downloading the games you bought needless to say i hardly buy digital

Currently half way thru the video but just to make sure I’m correct as long as your not in a Xbox party, you should be good or just Xbox users in general is unsafe

if you get banned on an Xbox account you can home that account and then licences tied to that account will get tied to the console instead. also the stasis tools been around for a hot minute, i made a burner acc to see what chicanery it can do and its pretty powerful. also i wouldn't recommend using it because you basically syncs your Xbox/Microsoft account to it so if they wanted to they could use it against you in some some or fashion , that and its just scummy if you use the clandestine features

In my opinion it’s more of a warning to people that play gta I would avoid it until the patch this issue but they might find a work around

Shouldn’t all those reports that are being sent to Microsoft be under the same username? So Microsoft sees it’s just one person reporting someone too much?

GTA Online is as enjoyable as getting your fingers slammed into a car door. The GTA Online subreddit is as enjoyable as having that same car catch on fire while your hand is caught in the door.

I remembered when the PlayStation 3 had this issue, lol, now the Xbox has this issue, hope something is done for the Xbox players.

They ban you from downloading games again if you are banned. Any games you own digitally on xbox and ARE NOT downloaded to the console and any other console you lose forever, unless you find a way to redownload them, which you wont, since you cant connect to xbox live. If you own a game on another account tho, and have progress for it on the banned account, you can make the account that isnt banned the home xbox so you can play on the banned account, of course offline only. I know this because I was banned in march 2020

considering the dynamic i believe piracy is the appropriate route so long as your intention is to admire, perserv, and compensate the devs. the big ppl made there money and dont care, but id be happy to seek out developers of my favorite ps2 games and throw them some donations...

If your wrongfully banned, and a bot/ai at Microsoft denies your appeal, you can't even sue. You signed away your right to sue through 'forced arbitration' when you agreed to Microsoft terms of service, so you'll have all your digital games taken away and you'll like it!

Basically if you are on Xbox set your parties to invite only and only invite people you trust

I mean, this is old news, new tricks. I remember back in BLOPS I had some annoying, racist kids bait me into a private match since I was a thorn on their side. Straight lag switched and all kinds of slurs when I joined. I then got a 2 day suspension. This was only like 4 people on their end. I can only imagine they bot reported me to get me banned so quick

Glad I stay on my beautiful PS2 , never wasting my money on these newer game consoles.

as a individual who knew someone who was banned for a year, (yes they can and do do that, Yes, your xbox account is linked to your purchase receipt, meaning if your banned, your receipt becomes invalid. and causes you to lose any games you purchased over XBox/Microsoft Obviously, this means Yes, You cannot play/use/open the games you own because you lose any access to that game as your copy is considered "Pirated" and due to anti-pirating backdoors on the game data being common now, your game is now bricked. so, Yes muta, You Lose your games to microsoft.

Cool. From what I gathered from this video is don't play with randoms

When Mutahar raise his hands and stares into the camera like that you know playtime is over

I am a Xbox player and while I don’t really get on Xbox parties or really play with anyone on Xbox period this is pretty scary to see. I don’t spend money on Xbox usually, I have a few free games that I play a lot and old games which I will occasionally spend money on, but the fact that someone can easily just pop in and get you banned is scary. I’m hoping MicroSoft actually does something about this issue cause if not then there’s definitely going to be fallout from it.

God I couldn't imagine having to try to appeal your account to Microsoft's braindead support team. Oh wait. They don't have one...

That thumbnail needs a warrant.

So the lesson here is to stick to only single player games, ignore all Xbox party invites like the plague, never own an Xbox account or own an Xbox to have your account perma-banned in the first place. Joking aside, I haven't logged into my account since both my Xbox One X and regular Xbone both shit the bed a while ago. This just makes me paranoid that as soon as buy a Series X, log into my account, only to discover that I'm banned for something that I didn't do. Or that Microsoft is pushing me to buy Gamepass just to play online. Whichever comes first.

Thanks for bringing needed attention/ awareness to this. Hopefully Microsoft actually does something about this, not like they got a load of money to fix it.

This is some real “neck beard” activities