According to reports out of Germany ten Xbox 360 development kits were stolen from a warehouse in Duren, Germany, with the hardware believed to have fallen into the hands of hackers reports GamesIndustry. A few weeks ago Andre Vrignaud, Director of Technical Strategy for Xbox Live touted the security of the Xbox 360. Vrignaud said Microsoft took 2 and a half years on security this time round, whereas the Xbox only had around a year. Vrignaud prompted: "I thinks it's going to be a long time before the Xbox 360 gets modded.

According to an article on Spiegel Online, the shipment of ten dev kits was delivered to a warehouse in Germany in unmarked packaging. The kits were supposed to be distributed onwards to developers in order to create games for the new console platform. A few days after the shipment went 'missing', photographs of the kits appeared on the Internet, with the serial numbers edited out. Police raids in Austria and Germany recovered three of the units, but seven kits remain untraced at present as the investigation continues.