The casualty statistics so far of the banned Xbox Live is at an uncool 600,000. Yep, that's 600,000 miserable souls with modded Xbox 360s, and inaccessible XBL accounts. What's more, word has it that Microsoft's out to target another 400,000 more.

Filipino blog Pinoy Cosplay reports that "a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account" has received instructions from Microsoft to -- get this -- "push for a million banned accounts by the time the holidays are over." That's a LOT of banned accounts, one whole million, if you can't do the astronomical math.

Says the source, "Our office has gone to hell. People have been calling in around the clock and most of them are screaming teenagers who don't understand the terms of use that comes with the console they bought."

Now, we have nothing official on this, so we're gonna have to tag this as rumor. But somehow, we wouldn't put it past Microsoft to give out such an order to their staff. If you own a modded console and you've luckily escaped the wrath of the banhammer thus far, keep those fingers of yours crossed, cos as you've read above, they're out to continue the onslaught till next year. Or until they reach their target of one million accounts banninated.

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