Late last month, we reported on Gerabox's plans to nerf hacking in Borderlands 2 on the Xbox 360. A particularly nasty hack utilizing a third party program was messing with consumer's games on the platform, allowing nefarious hackers to get into other people's games and mess around with their characters, even going so far as to delete save game progress.

At the time, Gearbox recommended a workaround in which gamers played only with trusted friends, or only in the game's splitscreen mode offline, but that killed the buzz of meeting up with random people online and exchanging loot and war stories.

Well, luckily for Xbox 360 gamers that promised update released today. The patch notes claim "added security to prevent data loss tied to malicious violations of the Xbox Live Code of Conduct through an unsupported third-party program."

That should mark the end of hacking on the Xbox 360, at least for now. So rejoice, Borderlands 2 players, for your characters are free again to roam the online wastelands trading and looting with perfect strangers.

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