14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Microsoft in charge of the accounts system announces that it is improving security of the feature in order to make sure that gamers have more control over their privacy and can see when someone tries to access their data without permission.
A new menu will be rolled out in the coming days which will allow all users of the Xbox Live service to see a list of all recent logins for the account, with attached data on location of access, time and date, as well as the device and the browser that was used.
The system is designed to separate successful and unsuccessful attempts and show when an incorrect password was used, even allowing the player to push just one button to tell the company that someone else was trying to access an account on the Xbox One or the 360.
Eric Doerr, the group program manager at the Account division at Microsoft, is quoted by CVG as saying that, "We think about protecting accounts as a partnership between us and you - the more you help us (with accurate account info, and updated security info), the more we can help you keep your stuff safe."
He adds, "the more we give you tools to understand what's happening, the better we can work together to protect your account. For example, a login from a new country might look suspicious to us, but you might know that you were simply on vacation or on a business trip."
Recently information from Edward Snowden has revealed that the NSA has infiltrated the Xbox Live service, in addition of the World of Warcraft MMO and Second Life, looking to shutdown recruitment efforts by terrorists and intercept their communications.
Microsoft has said it knows nothing about the surveillance effort but the new measures are not a result of government interference.