Over the New Year period, Microsoft's worldwide Xbox 360 online service developed some significant issues with its networked high score and online statistics, with many user's top scores being temporarily deleted from Xbox 360 Live.
However, an informational weblog post from Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb, Xbox Live Director of Programming at Microsoft, confirmed: "We are currently experiencing an issue with some of the leader boards and stats for Xbox 360 titles. We have identified the issue, and are working on resolving it over the next few hours."
A short time after this, the vast majority of the missing scores, which were most obvious on Xbox Live Arcade titles such as
Hexic and
Mutant Storm Reloaded, were restored. Hryb also noted on his weblog, following reports that the outage might have been related to some kind of user hack: "What happened was not a result of a hack (or hacks) or anything else security related. This is a bug, plain and simple."
As of early on January 2, Hryb commented that "stats have been restored, with the exception of
Geometry Wars: Evolved. The team continues to work on that title’s leaderboards."
