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The “unhackable” Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 17, 2026
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The Xbox in its current form. Photo: Microsoft

For 13 years, the Xbox One sat there like a locked vault nobody could crack. That streak ended last week when security researcher Markus “Doom” Gaasedelen unveiled “Bliss” at the RE//verse 2026 conference — the first complete hack of the console Microsoft’s engineers once called “the most secure product Micr…

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