It all happened during some routine maintenance, says Microsoft, and ”in no way related to false claims” of Xbox Live being targeted by hackers. They dismiss Anonymous involvement.
No Xbox Live came about from just a plain, boring screw-up. The outage came during peak hours of gaming over the weekend, and also affected media streaming services.
”The Xbox LIVE service outage on 13 April resulted from networking misconfiguration during routine maintenance and was in no way related to false claims of hacking the service,” Microsoft told GeekWire. Since the crippling attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network all those moons ago, any significant downtime is usually credited to hacking groups.
