Xbox 360 Hacked

Tags: Xbox 360, xbox 360 hacked, xbox 360 mod
From palgn.com.au "Microsoft might have claimed its Xbox 360 was unhackable, but, four months removed from the American launch, a hacking team led by 'The Specialist' has managed to get a pirate copy of Project Gotham Racing 3 running on a hacked machine. To achieve this, the 360 DVD drive had to have the firmware modified (by inserting a modded 360 game, among other things), allowing pirate discs to run as the drive no longer looks for a special code that can only be found on legal discs.However, 'The Specialist' and his band of merry men won't be distributing their firmware modifications, as they don't support piracy - only legitimate homebrew (which this does not provide), and the challenge of hacking itself. Hmm. Still, now the secret is out, you can bet on people with slightly more dubious morals replicating the process unfortunately. It's worth noting though that this method does NOT bypass region locking.YouTube has a video online, if you're curious in seeing it in action (or the inside of a 360, for that matter)."

Update 1: the register just posted this article ( note two hours after i posted about it, In your face register )

Update 2: xbox-scene has much better article explaining in detail how the hack works by modding the fireware of the dvd drive to fool the xbox 360 into thinking the DVD-R is infact xbox360 media here