Ok so it looks like the hackers are starting to employ the old XP stealing now and it's starting to happen more and more. Yesterday while playing a nightfall in sunless cell my fireteam noticed that every time I died the name displayed was from a player that we had passed on the way in! This seemed odd so I monitored the situation and noticed that I was getting no credit for kills at all. Neither my guns not my gear was getting any xp. So to test the theory I threw myself off the side of the bridge a few times and sure enough each and every death was attributed to this guy too. So what's happening you ask. Well basically he inspected my character and effectively hijacked my connection replacing my identity data with his own. In this way I (or you if you are his next victim or victim of a similar script kiddy) are doing all of his legwork. He grabs anything that you would have gotten. Luckily I noticed before finishing the nightfall and was able to kick him off my server connection before continuing the nightfall (only credited with half of my kills as a result though). Next question is what is Bungie doing about this as their server data should be able to identify people doing this. You yourself can't report them because to you they don't appear in game. Edit: For those of you calling BS. It's not. They use a PC to grab the network traffic. and then grab your ip. They are effectively piggy backing off of your server id. The script to do it is a PC mod and is available online. Really don't care much if you don't believe it as both Bungie and Microsoft have now been informed and I've passed on the details of the user involved to Microsoft who are now actively investigating it. For those of you who played Cod on PC you'll already be familiar with the method used and I'm not going to detail it here as it's bad enough that it's now appearing in Destiny at all! Edit: Some people seem to be trying to convince others that it's some harmless glitch that has been around for ages. It isn't! At no point is it a glitch to have all of your XP and rewards suddenly going to some random player you happened to pass while running through a patrol. That would be like saying it's a harmless random glitch if your bank suddenly started paying in your wages to another random account of a person who happened to be walking past the checking desk when you paid in the money! Computers don't work like that. They don't get confused with data tagged for one account and suddenly decide to send it to a completely different one. Like I said in another reply Microsoft are aware of the script kiddies and this has been around since the days of COD. COD being slightly worse in that your could end up reduced to level 1 again while the hacker got millions of points of xp. Edit: I would also think on this. Last time people like me reported stuff like the DDos attacks and the lag switching we were ignored until it got to epidemic proportions. Trials was a joke as a result and Bungie had to end up banning and removing the gear from a lot of people! In this case it's likely that this mod has become more prominent because of people testing it out for trials. It's going to be very unpleasant when people running trials for flawless (I'm not going to be one of them) find that some random player not even in their match has just achieved flawless while standing in a tower teabagging the cryptarch!