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Happened to many people. The system claims it's because of some suspicious activity but everybody who gave in to this blackmail and submitted personal details said that after logging in there was no notice of anything suspicious.

since this is a game it's probably mostly kids whose identifying information Microsoft is hunting for. I can't believe it's legal and the company was not sued yet

me I just pirate it now, never played on servers anyway.

And this is why you know age verification is not done to make sure kids are protected.
If it is through collecting phone numbers, yes