Microsoft Thanks 5 Years Old Kid For Breaking Xbox One

A five years old boy has discovered a really embarrassing security flaw in Xbox One screen and used it to to his dad’s without entering the correct .

The kid, Kristoffer Von Hassel from San Diego, discovered that entering a wrong into Xbox One screen brings up a second verification screen that can be byed by filling the field with spaces.

Kristoffer ‘s discovery was acknowledged (and fixed) by Microsoft after his father reported it to them. The company thanked him and listed him as one of March 2014 Security Researchers on its official technet.

“We’re always listening to our customers and thank them for bringing issues to our attention,” said Microsoft in an official statement. “We take security seriously at Xbox and fixed the issue as soon as we learned about it.”

It is good to see Microsoft fixing security flaws so quickly, but it is still hard for us to imagine how such a trivial trick ed their quality control and security process.