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Sanad Nesheiwat MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Sanad is listed as one of the participants in the group later referred to as Xbox Underground.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Sanad who’s trying to reverse-engineer the Xbox and downloading a ton of stolen data”
Skitzo MEMBER_OF Team Avalaunch
Skitzo was a member of Team Avalaunch.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Skitzo was a member of the Xbox hacking crew called Team Avalaunch”
Dylan MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Dylan was one of the participants in the group later referred to by the media as Xbox Underground.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“this group didn’t really have a name that they called themselves, but the media would later refer to this group as the Xbox Underground”
Austin Alcala MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Austin is identified as one of the newer members involved in the group's activity.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Austin and Nathan worked together to connect into Zombie Studio’s network”
Redline MEMBER_OF Team Avalaunch
Redline is described as an individual within Team Avalaunch.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Skitzo EP 45 Details
“People like Redline, who could do wonders with networking”
Nathan Leroux MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Nathan is identified as one of the newer members involved in the group's activity.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Austin and Nathan worked together to connect into Zombie Studio’s network”
bunnie was a graduate student at MIT while researching the Xbox.
Explicit Confidence 99% · bunnie EP 45 Details
“I was in MIT as a grad student at the time.”
Lantus MEMBER_OF Team Avalaunch
Lantus is described as an individual within Team Avalaunch.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Skitzo EP 45 Details
“You had individuals like Lantus”
Dave MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Dave is described as organizing and participating in the group later referred to as Xbox Underground.
Derived Confidence 92% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Dave who’s organizing a lot of this and modding, and hacking, and cracking passwords”
Dylan USES network pivoting
Dylan pivoted from compromised systems to other servers and machines inside Epic's network.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sanad Nesheiwat EP 45 Details
“I was just pivoting to different servers”
Xbox firmware image USES Xbox hidden key
The Xbox firmware image had to be signed and encrypted using a key that was initially unknown.
Explicit Confidence 99% · bunnie EP 45 Details
“The firmware image needed to be signed, encrypted to a key”
The described modification placed a mod chip on the Xbox 360 JTAG pins.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“if you put a mod chip on these JTAG pins”
Dave USES Xbox 360 dev kit
Dave bought and used Xbox 360 development kits for modding and access to unreleased games.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Dave was an Xbox hacker and he had been buying dev kits from Rowdy”
Dylan accessed a machine through an open SMB service to find additional credentials.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“I stumbled across one machine which had an SMB open.”
Sanad Nesheiwat USES Xbox 360 dev kit
Sanad obtained and used an Xbox 360 development kit to run pre-release software.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sanad Nesheiwat EP 45 Details
“I was actually able to get everybody on the team a dev kit through Rowdy”
Sanad Nesheiwat USES hacked cable modem
Sanad used a hacked cable modem to connect to Epic's network and download data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sanad Nesheiwat EP 45 Details
“I had a hacked cable modem on Comcast.”
Passwords Pro USES MD5
Passwords Pro was used to crack hashes identified as MD5 with salt.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“they realized that it was just the MD5 and salt”
“They were able to use Passwords Pro to just de-hash everything”
Dylan USES credential dumping
Dylan used a database dump containing usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“One day he gave me this list”
“usernames, e-mails, and plain text passwords”
bunnie USES Reverse engineering
bunnie wrote about reverse-engineering the Xbox and used hardware research to analyze it.
Derived Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“writing about how to reverse engineer the Xbox”
Team Avalaunch USES Xbox 360 dev kit
Team Avalaunch obtained and hacked Xbox 360 development kits.
Explicit Confidence 92% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Team Avalaunch figured this out and built a custom dashboard for the 360”
Anthony USES Reverse engineering
Anthony reverse-engineered machine language to create Halo 3 modifications.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“Anthony was good at reverse-engineering things”
Dylan USES password reuse
Dylan tested credentials from a database dump against other services and found reused passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“Let’s see if they reuse passwords.”
Dylan encountered Epic's virtualized infrastructure running on VMware and ESX.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“they had a ESX kind of host, so they were VMware for everything”
Dave USES PartnerNet
Dave created a program that parsed PartnerNet data and enabled access to hidden files.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sanad Nesheiwat EP 45 Details
“it would actually parse the XML file for PartnerNet and allow us to download files that were hidden on PartnerNet”
bunnie eventually got the Xbox to run Linux.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“eventually got the Xbox to run Linux”