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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by CRConrad on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:57AM (#21106334)
Several people here have talked about “hacks” like what happened to ypur son, and I'm of course not saying they're wrong. I don't quite get the idea what it's supposed to get such hackers, though, so I think you shouldn't rule out sheer incompetence: Maybe someone else has a family member with the same or a similar name and was trying to add rhem, and a search threw up your son's name and they added him by mistake?

Shouldn't be able to happen, of course, but given it's Microsoft we're talking about, who would swear it couldn't?

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by GVIrish on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:38AM (#21106678)
As a sibling comment said, some people are griefers who only seek to inconvenience or otherwise harass others. Particularly with online games.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by bigwavedave on Sunday September 29, 2019 @01:26PM (#21108312)
Especially as a form of revenge. Yeah, it's petty, but it's been my experience that "petty" (and so many other gamers are going to down vote this) describes 90% of gaming cultures.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by GlenTheMachine on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:47AM (#21106995)
IIRC this particular family had several thousand children. I don’t think it was a mistake.
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