The Xbox Live online service was down for a few hours yesterday and immediately after the outage happened, a hacker claimed to have broken into Microsoft's servers. The company has now denied the rumor, saying that its service wasn't affected by any intrusion.

The Xbox Live service is crucial to the success of the current Xbox 360 and, according to Microsoft itself, will be a winning factor for the next-generation Xbox One in front of Sony's PlayStation 4.

Unfortunately, the service went down for a few hours yesterday and a hacker called Reckz0r immediately bragged on Twitter that he cracked Xbox Live's servers, exposing the personal information of over 47 million users from around the world.

Microsoft immediately denied the report, telling GameSpot that the Xbox Live service was not hacked as there was no breach in its security systems.

As of yet, it's unclear if Reckz0r's claims were true or just made up, so expect to hear a bit more about it soon.

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