If you receive an invitation to join Playfire.com, use caution. Playfire, a social networking site for gamers, has been collecting users' Microsoft Windows LIVE ID credentials and sending invitations to join their site through the Xbox Live messaging system without Microsoft's consent. You should never give anyone or any site your LIVE ID credentials except for official Microsoft websites.
Here is a sample invitation:
Microsoft's legal team is going through the legal process of shutting them down, or at least stopping the collection of LIVE Id's, but it may take awhile.
Update: It's unclear whether there is malicious intent behind the collection the of LIVE ID credentials, but to protect yourself, you should never give that information away to any site except for official Microsoft Live websites. In addition, this collection of Live credentials blatantly violates Microsoft's policies, which may or may not say something about Playfire.com.
Update 2: It looks like Microsoft's legal team has triumphed. According to Large Jaguar, Xbox.com Development Manager, "PlayFire is no longer collecting WLID credentials for people's Xbox LIVE accounts."
Here is a sample invitation:
Unattributed Quote:
You were invited to join Playfire, the social network for gamers, by your friend XXXXXX. We have already built your profile, based on your Xbox Live data! Check it out here: http://www.playfire.com/xbox/XXXXXX
Microsoft's legal team is going through the legal process of shutting them down, or at least stopping the collection of LIVE Id's, but it may take awhile.
Update: It's unclear whether there is malicious intent behind the collection the of LIVE ID credentials, but to protect yourself, you should never give that information away to any site except for official Microsoft Live websites. In addition, this collection of Live credentials blatantly violates Microsoft's policies, which may or may not say something about Playfire.com.
Update 2: It looks like Microsoft's legal team has triumphed. According to Large Jaguar, Xbox.com Development Manager, "PlayFire is no longer collecting WLID credentials for people's Xbox LIVE accounts."
