Xbox Live Achievements Not Wiped?

A rumor that concerned the recent issues with Xbox Live being responsible for wiping out some of the achievements 360 gamers played hard to collect. Despite several comments on that story indicating otherwise, word from Microsoft's Larry Hryb is that this is not the case. The following comment appeared in Larry's Twitter widget early this morning.
"Regardless of what you have read, achievements are not disappearing for users"

This afternoon Microsoft officially responded to our request for a comment, saying mostly the same thing Hryb said:
"Xbox LIVE is not erasing Achievement's earned while playing on the service. If any member is having trouble with their Xbox LIVE service, we urge them to contact 1-800-4-my-xbox."

http://kotaku.com/342727/xbox-live-a...ents-not-wiped

Like I said, achievements are on memory, not online. So the guy was on crack after all.

achievements are why people play the games much anyways, try to get as much points as possible