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Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog
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I hope whoever was responsible loses their job, gets fined quite heavily, and gets a bad rep. That's about it.
Schreier is replying the tweet about that disgruntled employee rumor by saying "if it's true, ..." people immediately come to conclusion that Schreier know more about it than us and think the rumor is true while actually Jason is just speculating just like everyone else. he later clarified that he didn't think the rumor is true at all.
Wow what a dick move. That's why I'm not going in any threads even related to it(besides this).
Could still be considered a hack if the person that got the info wasn't suppose to be there. It's like you left your door wide open and someone walked in and stole your stuff that'll be still considered a burglary.
Basically.
Each and every ND game that gets patch updates a key from a server after it gets patched, and that server gives you and millions of other people keys to look at that server. That server did not have any authentication what so ever. As far as I was told once you gave it the key that you had gotten it literally just opened the doors, and where do you think the copy of the game that leaked was :P
If OP wants to thread mark this because this is the legitimate way it was taken from ND. Blame them for storing information like that in such a unsecure spot.
I also want to point out I literally had nothing to do with the leak. I just was told how it happened.
You're kidding yourself if you think the retribution won't be wildly disproportionate. That's how corporations do.
That leaker was named and had more information known about that circumstance. Also what they leaked isn't nearly as substantial as this TLOU2 leak.
Well go for it instead of hinting stuff then.
It's likely external QA or similar. I was saying "we won't know more than that" regarding names and such.
Well I don't know how their pay system works so can't comment but this could potentially affect current or future pay and staff structure.
I don't doubt that TLOU2 will be a huge success but there could still be a loss of earnings, affect staffing structure or hirings and also reputational damages to the company since the story of this being from a disgruntled employee has made the rounds and will undoubtedly stick in people's minds regardless of what updates this story will have.
Also, while I do despise how big companies treat their workers and am all for crackdowns on the shit they do, we can't treat this situation differently because of NDs size.
Imagine if this happened to an indie developer, would you still feel as unempathetic as you currently do?
Again, I'm not saying to lock them up and throw away the key but there should be some form of repercussions from doing something like this.
It really was an awful tweet =/ , I was on the receiving end of it too as I was trying to help Angie tell that bigot off. As awful as that tweet was I can imagine there are far far worse ones too and I'm just lucky that I or Angie (to my knowledge) hasn't had to deal with even worse tweets/messages. I feel for all those that have though including the devs, especially since they had to deal with getting blamed for the leaks for days now too until this news :(
lol
Bake him away, toys.
Is that one of those streamers swattings?
OMG! Well it's shocking that more folks didn't gain access if that's the case. I assume ND shut that down at this point. Sounds like whoever was responsible at ND should be fired.
I stand by that Sony will never sue over this for a variety of reasons. Just way too hard for something like this.
Get fucked.
Avoiding spoilers in here is already pretty hard with that thread popping up every minute on the front page, and I managed to get spoiled in a YouTube comment section of a video about how to make Shakshuka. Not even kidding.
Yes I am pretty fucking mad, have no idea if the spoiler was real, but it doesn't really matter because now I think it is. Ugh.
Avoiding spoilers in here is already pretty hard with that thread popping up every minute on the front page, and I managed to get spoiled in a YouTube comment section of a video about how to make Shakshuka. Not even kidding.
Yes I am pretty fucking mad, have no idea if the spoiler was real, but it doesn't really matter because now I think it is. Ugh.
Am going to quote myself from the other thread.
I also want to point out I literally had nothing to do with the leak. I just was told how it happened.
Sony identified the primary individuals who massively leaked TLOU2
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-04-27-the-last-of-us-part-2-leaked-online Sony has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it has identified the primary individuals responsible for the leaks earlier this weeks, saying they were not affiliated with Sony Interactive Entertainment or...
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Not the one that was killed during a swatting though, I assume they don't want it to go that far.
Its odd because when its one of the ROM sites hit with legal action games companies are decried as being heavy handed, but here people want someone to be hit with the kind of lawsuit that will ultimately ruin the livelihood of a person and their family.
Whoever leaked this absolutely screwed up massively, but if its a choice between Sony losing a minimal amount of revenue to a small few people not buying the game and one person losing their livelihood and being made broke by this I'd prefer Sony and Naughty Dog take the hit every time.
Relative to the total projected sales of this game, revenue loss would be fractions of a percent and ultimately meaningless to them.
The leaker set off a chain reaction that has made some damned fools actually think that it's a great idea to spoil the game 'for the greater good', to fuck the SJWs, or even in a sad state of fighting a console war.
Blaming the trigger to this situation is normal, and substantiated. I'm sorry empathy is hard on you, but you do you. Keep fighting the good fight that committing a crime is worth defending.
Not necessarily. It would look worse if it was someone affiliated with ND or Sony. So perhaps Sony is using this language to make it look like an outside party, when it very well could be a contractor.
Is this a possible suspect? He ain't with Sony anymore, right? Maybe revenge against Jim Ryan
Yeah. When that shit was happening, not gonna lie, definitely was scary. Even got someone killed once (not to a streamer but someone else from what I understand). I remember one streamer, it got to the point how many times he was called, they just send someone to the house, just to confirm everything's okay, and then they'd move on.
Thanks!
Looks like they have a massively insecure infrastructure then, which isn't that surprising given the state of PSN I guess, but still.
Doesn't seem like they can do a trial out of this tbh.
Didn't that dude that provided a fake address for swatting get like 10-15 years in prison?? The other parties were still on trial last I heard. Caused the death of an innocent person there
Well, they already ruined the game for me so yeah, I guess they will pay for that, bunch of a**holes... I don't even know if I'm going to play the game at this point, I don't see the point right now.
The Last of Us is a billion dollar IP.
Say what you like but this is indeed serious business.
Well they haven't taken any legal action yet.
And that thread wasn't even focused on that IIRC. It was mainly 'why side with the corporation vs the little guy?' ad nauseum.
So not even Era is safe? Can mods somehow vet threads before they are posted
Acting like this guy murdered someone. They probably get less mad at Trump lmao.