After being repeatedly banned for hacking and stealing accounts on Xbox Live, a user going by the name of "Predator" finally snapped and managed to social engineer his way into the account of Stephen Toulouse, the director of Xbox Live's policy enforcement team.
Toulouse disclosed via Twitter that he had lost access to his website, Stepto.com, after Network Solutions transferred control of the domain to an attacker who used social engineering to acquire it. He requested that readers not send him any e-mails for fear that they were compromised.
Shortly thereafter, a video was uploaded to YouTube by Predator, alleging that the same method had been done to acquire Toulouse's Xbox Live account. The video uploader bragged about his score, and spent much of the video giving shout-outs to his "boys" and insulting those who doubted his abilities. He claimed that he was getting revenge for having been banned 35 times on Xbox Live and touted his services as a mercenary hacker.
It won't be long before the FBI catches up to him given the amount of information he disclosed about himself in his video, so his days of getting social with accounts may well be numbered.
Source: Ripten
