EQUIPEngadget · 3d ago
Xbox explains what caused this week's 'unacceptable' major outage
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Xbox leadership confirmed a major service outage resulted from a failure in an external licensing service. The incident disrupted platform access, prompting executive acknowledgment of the service lapse as unacceptable for users.
- 01A third-party licensing service located outside of the Xbox ecosystem caused the systemic outage
- 02Xbox executives formally categorized the service disruption as an unacceptable failure for the platform
- 03The technical breakdown specifically impacted digital rights management and service authentication protocols
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An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."