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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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Yeah, I generally avoid doing that, but I did, and it's an alt-right/GG shithole alright.
Happily enough, there seems to be about 50 of these people tops, the place is dead, but still.
Will be up to them to report this incident to their local GDPR enforcing authorities and hope they investigate.
Oh, wow. I suppose that's a good sign you've cultivated a respectful and caring fanbase.
What a shitty statement by the ESA. The fact that they didn't even bother to read through it once to fix the grammar mistake shows how little they care.
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Updated the OP with a direct link to Steve's thread, plus Rotobit's post that linked to where UK residents can register complaints
i imagine some consumers would still want it to go on, but i can see most publishers not wanting to support them after this
Ah good as if these fuckos on the chan sites needed any more ammo to go after after all the women in the industry they hate. These massive data leaks are fucking exhausting. People have to be on guard constantly and nothing ever fucking happens to the people responsible for the security breaches.
Regardless of what happens to the journalists affected, I don't see the ESA or E3 suffering any notable consequences as a result of this.
I think if something happens it's EU's GDPR officials coming down on ESA and making example out of them, but that also depends on Europeans affected by this going to officials in first place.
Horrible situation for all those impacted. My deepest condolences and I hope everyone stays safe. I'd be shocked if we have an E3 2020 after this
More than that, check out her actual YouTube channel and how much it caters to GG and alt-right types. That's her audience. This information was going straight to them.
Then that situation (that the leak was popularized by someone very well-disposed to deliver it to people who will use it to harass people) is newsworthy in itself, no?
If this had happened in early 2020 E3 would have been in danger. But since it happened so early there is enough time for things to change, especially if Microsoft decides to announce the new Xbox next E3
"(Narwitz has not yet responded to Kotaku's request for more details about the discovery of this document.) "
Lmao, I love this fucking constant grey area bullshit where the one sliver of plausible deniability you have means that their followers and patreon paypigs will jump into every reply about this and use "WELL YOU CAN'T PROVE WITHOUT A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THEY WERE IN THE WRONG" as their argument over and over again despite any amount of common sense telling people otherwise.
Yes it is and we shouldn't be thanking her or giving her credit for what she did. What she did was shitty and irresponsible and from the sounds of it had a possible agenda to it.
This Kotaku article has a good outline of what happened:
kotaku.com
E3 Expo Leaks The Personal Information Of Over 2,000 Journalists [Update]
A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors, and other content creators was recently found to have been published and publicly accessible on the website of the E3 Expo.
kotaku.com
your avatar is somehow fitting.
:(
sucks for everyone involved :(
Yeah, Narwitz is a Right Wing GG supporter. I 100% believe that leaking to places like the Chans and r/KIA was not just some unintended side effect.
The possibility of people having your home address is by far the biggest concern. This shit is unacceptable.
From what I heard, the floor was far more empty this year than it usually is both in terms of journalists and consumers. If journos don't go next year because of this, it's going to be an absolute ghost town
This tweet chain should help:
The OP also outlines a GDPR complaint you can do if you're in the EU.
What really blows my mind here is that this was a direct link publicly available on their site. This is insane.
There is no law in the US to help anyone here out, but I hope Europeans affected can punish the ESA for such blatant disregard of people's privacy. Don't let them get away with just firing one person to save face. Best of luck to people being affected by it, GGers have a huge grudge against gaming media, this is really serious.
yup, clearly it wasn't a vulnerability.
it's not a bug, it's a feature.
No as they are organizers of it and board is stacked with AAA publisher CEO's.
They had that snafu with Kinda Funny's Greg Miller. What a mismanaged mess when they have been running this thing for years and years.
The weird thing a simple google can often get you someone's name, address and phone number, but this still super sucks.
I emailed the ESA because I want to know what info of mine was actually available, but from the sound of it my photo ID info was not included at least.
I'm guessing that part of the compromised information?
Thank you :)
E3 itself is becoming more unneeded. With Playstation and Nintendo Directs being perfectly fine has a cheaper / safer alternative.
Why does ESA need media personal home addresses to begin with?