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A coder group called Team PI Coder claims to have extracted source files of 360 games as they are loaded on to the console.
Weeks after the release of the Xbox 360, hackers have cracked into the software that runs the console. A group called Team PI Coder have found a way to extract source files as they get loaded on to the console. This is the first step towards hacking the Microsoft device.
Team PI Coder has posted details on several games to the Web along with an "extractor tool" that could potentially be used to copy games, according to Xbox-scene.com.
Downloading such releases is illegal, and you can't do anything with them yet," Xbox-Scene.com said in a posting.
The copies are useless, at least for now, because further Xbox safeguards prevent playing of the copies, and the games also won't run on a PC. In a text file describing the extracted data for Sega's Condemned: Criminal Origins, Team PI Coder said that not much can be done with the files.
"You can't run these dumps yet, but you will be able to sooner or later," it wrote in the note. "So the first task is done. We hope this encourages all hackers, coders and crackers out there to take up the challenge."
Microsoft wouldn't comment on the hacking work by Team PI Coder, but a company representative said the recently launched Xbox 360 is well protected. "We have made improvements on both the hardware and software side to protect Xbox 360 against piracy and modding (modification of components)," the company said in a statement on Friday.
"With Xbox 360, we had the benefit of learning from our experiences on Xbox. This allowed us to identify points of weakness that were exploited by hackers in the first generation and to eliminate those vulnerabilities in Xbox 360," the Microsoft representative said.
A coder group called Team PI Coder claims to have extracted source files of 360 games as they are loaded on to the console.
Weeks after the release of the Xbox 360, hackers have cracked into the software that runs the console. A group called Team PI Coder have found a way to extract source files as they get loaded on to the console. This is the first step towards hacking the Microsoft device.
Team PI Coder has posted details on several games to the Web along with an "extractor tool" that could potentially be used to copy games, according to Xbox-scene.com.
Downloading such releases is illegal, and you can't do anything with them yet," Xbox-Scene.com said in a posting.
The copies are useless, at least for now, because further Xbox safeguards prevent playing of the copies, and the games also won't run on a PC. In a text file describing the extracted data for Sega's Condemned: Criminal Origins, Team PI Coder said that not much can be done with the files.
"You can't run these dumps yet, but you will be able to sooner or later," it wrote in the note. "So the first task is done. We hope this encourages all hackers, coders and crackers out there to take up the challenge."
Microsoft wouldn't comment on the hacking work by Team PI Coder, but a company representative said the recently launched Xbox 360 is well protected. "We have made improvements on both the hardware and software side to protect Xbox 360 against piracy and modding (modification of components)," the company said in a statement on Friday.
"With Xbox 360, we had the benefit of learning from our experiences on Xbox. This allowed us to identify points of weakness that were exploited by hackers in the first generation and to eliminate those vulnerabilities in Xbox 360," the Microsoft representative said.
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