Chasing Xbox Spying Allegations, Australian Police Raid Potential Hacker’s Home

Microsoft, Sony, Epic Games, Blizzard, and Valve are the big computing and gaming names allegedly involved in the hacker hunt down under.

It’s Xbox meets The X-Files.

TheTechGame.com reports that the home of a West Australian man was raided by eight local police officers and a member of the FBI, apparently connected to allegations of corporate espionage on the next-generation Xbox. The team was armed with a search warrant and a battering ram, which went unused as Dan Henry, a.k.a. online personality and alleged hacker SuperDaE, was at home. The warrant allowed search of all computer materials, and Gizmodo.au says the police took about 10 servers, a decade of hard drives, laptops, and cell phones. Henry is under investigation for corporate espionage relating to the unreleased future Xbox, codenamed Durango.

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