Kindergarten hacker: 5 year old breaks into dad's Xbox Live account

A 5-year-old boy from San Diego got a sweet deal from Microsoft in return for discovering a major security hole.

The company gave Kristoffer Von Hassel four free games, $50, and a one-year subscription to Xbox Live. He was able to gain access to his dad’s account by entering the wrong password into the login screen, then filling up the password field by pressing the space bar on a second password verification screen. His dad, Robert, is a security expert and sent details of the loophole to Microsoft.