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E3 organization leaks data for over 2,000 journalists and analysts [Update: Additional security breaches discovered, see threadmarks]
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Any company involved in the tech and gaming industry should know better than to keep anything in plain text documents. I hope they get dragged to hell and back for this shit.
How does GDPR actually work in this sense? Like, this is why a lot of NA-based websites straight-up don't allow EU residents to visit them - like if I visit a lot of regional US news sites, I get a message saying sorry, you can't read our content because of GDPR and the data we store on our visitors. Other sites, compliant sites (like Era, even!) ask your permission to store the data, and presumably by doing that, they are agreeing to be held responsible if it gets out? I honestly don't know, curious if there's any Euro law folks on Era who are knowledgeable.
What does that matter though? EU has no authority to issue fines or penalties against a US-exclusive organization, and no real leverage to make them pay up. Any legal action will have to come from the US government.
I attended an E3 in the past...
Is there any way I can easily check if I am a part of the leak?
Is there any way I can easily check if I am a part of the leak?
Look up gdpr, any EU citizen has rights when their info is leaked and the EU will protect those rights. The EU will get involved and sue them for leaking of personal info of EU citizens, especially for covering it up. It doesn't matter if it a US company or a company from space, if EU citizens are effected the EU will get involved.
Under what court system is a trial going to happen? And how is that court going to compel the ESA to show up? Or compel them to pay a fine or a judgement ?
GDPR works against companies that have significant and strong interests in conducting commerce in Europe, but not so much independent entities that are not subject to its laws.
Problem is that the ESA has so few interests in European there's really not a lot of reason for them to play ball — I guess it depends on the kind of penalty that is at stake. The bigger the penalty the EU seeks the easier it is for the ESA to justify stiffing them.
Hey guys, does anyone know a way to seeing the list? I attended E3 for the first time this year as registered media and this is horrifying as I am part of a small time team that used all personal information while signing up. It makes me feel better than I am not able to easily find it through Google, but I need to see how much of my information is jeopardized.
If anyone could help please PM and I can verify my media status at this years event. Thanks!
If anyone could help please PM and I can verify my media status at this years event. Thanks!
It's 2004, 2006 and 2019. If you attended one of those years, you're out there. The lists certainly seem like a complete list of people with media badges, so it follows...
Surely this kinda shit should be absolute too priority and be dealt with securely. How can shit like this keep happening with companies? Don't all companies dealing with private data have frameworks they have to follow? If not then they should.
Article on a breach in 2018.
Now E3 2018 has been discovered.
The way that this keep snowballing into something even more disastrous astounds me to no end.
How could the ESA screw up so much?!
Hanlon's razor: They delete anything that is too controversial so as to cut back on the drama/toxicity/shitshow
Cynic: They tend to very selectively choose what to delete and what not to and it usually follows "Baseless accusations that pewdiepie and the other idiots push? fine. attempts to provide context and explain why accusations were bullshit? accidentally caught by the automod"
Gotta admit I'm kind of annoyed at the journalist in question there, they could have told the ESA about the breach before anything happened but instead decided to hold off because it'd be harder to get retribution? Sure it would be difficult to raise legal actions against the ESA if they scrubbed it before anything happened, but that's just throwing everyone else under the bus, who knows what could still happen to the people caught in the crossfire.
I'm sure they could have kept evidence of the breach and showed the press, too, that'd have been a big enough scandal on its own.
This is the way ESA ends
This is the way ESA ends
This is the way ESA ends
Not with a failing show, but with a massive data leak.
This is the way ESA ends
This is the way ESA ends
Not with a failing show, but with a massive data leak.
This is purely my speculation since I don't know what news sites you are visiting, but there aren't a lot of "regional" journalism outlets anymore. Local papers are often owned by large conglomerates and multinational companies. Maybe the Washington Post doesn't get in trouble if it mishandles your data, but that newspaper is owned by Amazon and they do not want the EU to come down hard on them.
The ESA's (ongoing saga of a) lack of data security makes the Waypoint/Vice article on the leaks ring more true than ever.
There's no way it can continue now, even if they aren't sued. Trust has been destroyed.
What the fuck? They didn't even reply? This case is going to be very easy to win, it seems...
The pessimist in me sees this doing nothing to either damage the ESA or stop E3. Most people don't care or even know that this is a thing.
We're at 4 already. I don't know how have they been so bad on this.
You can't host a show if the media refuses to attend. They're the ones who had their data leaked.
So they literally did NOTHING?
They more than deserve all this flak then. Absolutely outrageous that they never even responded.
Makes this look like issue that many have known about for looong time, but kept silent. Then lid got blow off by story going public and now everyone is coming out with "I knew too! I had access to this and that years lists etc!".
So this will highly impact the next E3 right? I can't see people being happy with the way this was handled and I doubt they would wan't to go again just for it to possibly happen again. If anything would kill E3, this would be it. The show is kind of joke after this.
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I highly doubt there will be another *E3* as we know it.
I highly doubt there will be another *E3* as we know it.
This is good advice but they weren't dumb for not thinking of this.