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[Update] Account hacked for special Halo 3 armor
BY Rain Anderson Dec. 30th, 2007

There’s a much desired armor variation that many hardcore Halo 3 players desire. It’s called the Halo 3 Recon Armor and is specially made for Bungie employees and a few select gamers they choose to give it to. So it can’t be earned by just playing the game and unlocking stuff.

Halo 3 gamer ‘Skyllus vBi’ was one of those lucky people to be on the receiving end of this special armor - for shooting himself in the head with his own Sniper Rifle (video) - but it’s turned into kind of a curse for the poor guy.

As always, there are some jealous people who just can’t keep their hands to themselves and must do anything to get their hands on the most wanted item. And a few of these people have went as far as hacking Skyllus vBi’s account. And not just once but three times in the last two months.

The worst thing is that Microsoft isn’t helping the poor guy - 18004MYXBOX has hung up on him and Windows Live Support has turned a blind eye to the issue. So he and his buddies are working on getting the message heard by as many as possible with the obvious goal of forcing Microsoft and Bungie to deal with the issue.

I’m no lawyer but if they manage find this guy - and they think they might already have is IP address since he was dumb enough go and brag about his “achievement” on a forum - could this perhaps be treated as identity theft?

Update: Microsoft investigating Halo 3 armor hack

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    1. Lochie
      July 19th, 2008
      at 7:18 pm

      This would not go under identity theft, but rather, it would most likely go under “breaking and entering”. As the attacker is forcefully entering private property.

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      MeanGreenPsycho
      November 20th, 2008
      at 7:07 am

      Thats f**ked up, i know the aromor is awsome and few lucky get it…and in a way i find hacking for fun…for fun, but when u havk someones account for a halo armor thats just, well f**ked up and not fair. If u have to hack a acoount of someone elses just to play with some armor, then your a dumba$$

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      ghostayami
      December 27th, 2008
      at 12:32 am

      That’s true you should be happy for what you have like hyabusa and others its just one set it doesn’t matter “YOU HEAR THAT DAMN HALO HACKERS I’M ON TO YOU”don’t worry man im now devoted to find halo hackers and stop them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      marcovboro
      January 10th, 2009
      at 8:55 pm

      The guy probably wanted recon armor so desparately

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      marcovboro
      January 10th, 2009
      at 8:57 pm

      Maybe but recon armor is apparently so great that its worthit

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      Graven
      February 3rd, 2009
      at 1:56 pm

      haha, i want the armor pretty bad. but not mad enough to hack into someone’s acc for it. now if only i can find i way to kill my self with a br, maybe then id get it? :P

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