Xbox One hack – The status in 2015
We rarely talk about the Xbox One hack scene here. But once in a while it’s good to look around and see what other consoles are doing.
With the recent prison sentence of Canadian hacker David Pokora (whose group, among other things, managed to stole blueprints of the Xbox One 2 year ago), I got reminded that the PS4 is not the only console that hackers are looking at, and it got me curious about what was happening on the Xbox side.
Xbox One hack – was anything released in 2014 or 2015?
Every console is the target of hackers, and the Xbox One is no exception. The last time I talked about an Xbox One hack was more than a year ago, and this was about a conversation happening between famous Xbox 360 hackers on an irc channel. It turned out the conversation had never happened, and had been fabricated.
There are also lots of sites publishing click & bait articles on the Xbox One hack, recycling the story above and adding a twist to it to make it look like a fresh story.
What happened since then?
The last Xbox One hack related event that can be found on the net is quite recent: in December last year, a version of the Xbox One SDK got leaked by a hacking group going with the name of H4LT. The file, uploaded on Mega, is still up there and fairly easy to find on various download communities.
This was 4 month ago, and nothing has been released (publicly) since then. We know here at wololo.net that a leaked SDK does not mean much. It could surely give an insight into some of the console’s internals though (and Eurogamer have a great piece on this), but might not be extremely useful for the purpose of a Xbox One hack.
H4LT stated at the time of the leak that the leaked SDK contains information that could potentially help to hack the device. Although it is highly doubtful that just the SDK could lead to anything, there’s a possibility that hackers are hard at work to investigate that, and other leads, for a Xbox One hack. Earlier this year, H4LT stated:
Once the SDK is out, people who have knowledge or has in the past reversed files related to the Windows (8) operating system should definitely have a go at reversing some files in there.Why? Well, the Xbox One is practically a stripped Windows 8 device and has introduced a new package format that hasn’t had much attention. This format is responsible for updating the console and storing applications (Games are under the category of ‘Applications’ on the Xbox One) and is a modification of Virtual Hard Disks. There is no definite ‘exploit’ but from what we have studied and tested, this simple Packaging format could possibly lead us to creating Homebrew applications for the Xbox One.
As always, be aware of spam sites that pretend they have access to an Xbox One hack. At this point, no such thing has been released. To keep you up to date on what’s going on, I’ve created a Xbox One hack page, similar to our PS4 Jailbreak page, that aims at understanding the real and the fake stuff, so you don’t have to do it yourself.
Interesting. Wasn’t aware progress was being made on the XB1 front. Wonder if we’ll eventually end up having CFW hacks for all of the current gen consoles and handhelds?
it will happen, eventually, all systems from 3ds, ps3, 360, wii, and under can be hacked. Its just a matter of time
I really wish that the xbox 1 could have used the same type of media file transfer as the ps3. In where you could save a video file to the hard drive and play it back later with out a disc. It does however have the ability to use your computer to play the video’s but not save them
Well I guess its time to finally get a XB1 and hide it in my bat cave
Aren’t you worried that Robin will use it instead of fighting crime?
^ That sounds kinky, but to each their own, I guess
I’m quite sure Robin will use it as a butt warmer until Harold fixed the one in the Batmobile
*** you batman, I thought you were my crime fighting friend! Everyone knows you have to smash the xbox one not sit on it. Microsoft is ***!
troll. ps4 fanboi
oh, and here i thought that xb1 would b hacked hardware wise like x360 was due to it faulty dvd drives? did they adapt the bd drive to prevent that from happening?
It was never due to a faulty drive. We litreally overwrote the firmware on the drive with new/modified firmware, at least for DVD rom mods. JTAG/RGH had nothing to do with the dvd drive, and everything to do with circumventing the signing process and running unsigned code by soldering a wire, or glitching in RGH
Really? You need to look into the history of x360 hacking. (How was the cpukey retrieved ).
have a little read: http://beta.ivc.no/wiki/index.php/Xbox_360_King_Kong_Shader_Exploit
Well all that needs to be thought of is how long the first xbox and xbox 360 took to get exploited. It will get hacked and it will be expensive and it wont be the greatest method. From there hackers will come out with different ways and figure out ways to charge more until there is better solution.
It will be the same as previous generation, they will get hacked but this time it will be even more pricer and riskier….i do miss the days like psp where all u needed was cheap items to hack hardware
Good luck,only good luck!!
Why not just download the Xbox 1 emulator? oh wait. There isn’t one!
goood job wololo , thanks for these informations .
Good job development crackers
Well with windows 10 on the way it may render the Xbox one useless BC apparently it will support xbox one games idk just what I’ve herd.
That’s not even remotely true. You will be able to stream games to your PC but it still requires the use of an XBox One to utilize the feature. There is also talk of many games being PC > XBox One cross-play for multiplayer. But, never in a million years would Microsoft release an operating system that can play their console games natively. How would they make their 350 bucks from their VCR-like hardware if they did?
another troll. it looks like a console to normal peope, who arent ignorant
I am truly surprise to not see anything about the new xbox one RGH exploit. Well not exactly RGH but very similar.
A group of hackers has started rumors about it and even had a conference in which they showed a proof of concept of their work.
I believe it won’t be long before we see a public xbox one rgh/JTAG.
Please Wololo, look into it and let us all know what you think about it and what you have found that i might’ve missed.
I will look into it. Do you have a link to the conference, video, website, the team behind this?
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