The Redmond-based company had an excellent idea on how to figure out who was leaking information.

We’re using the past term because we’re talking about the Xbox 360‘s New Xbox Experience (NXE) user interface, and this console isn’t current-gen anymore. On Twitter, @cullend revealed how Microsoft could find the people who ended up breaking the NDA, the non-disclosure agreement: „One of the most fun jobs I ever had was figuring out how to embed the serial number of your Xbox 360 into rings emanating from the bottom right, so we could track and identify leaks.”

Indeed, these circles functioned as numbers, and as each Xbox 360 had a different serial number, it was easy to find out who broke the NDA, and, according to Jason Short who works at Microsoft, „there was more than one internal person busted that way.” We also read on Twitter that these rings in the bottom right were only used during the NXE’s beta, and the retail version ended up getting rid of it.

The agreements, contracts have to be respected, especially with such a significant company – we couldn’t have come up with such an ingenious leak-tracking way as Microsoft did!

Source: DualShockers

One of the most fun jobs I ever had was figuring out how to embed the serial number of your Xbox 360 into rings emanating from the bottom right, so we could track and identify leaks pic.twitter.com/i8knGgMTvz

— Cullen (@cullend) December 9, 2018

Yes. There was more than one internal person busted that way.

— Jason Short (@shortproof) December 10, 2018

No, this was only NDA’d betas

— Cullen (@cullend) December 9, 2018