It was contact info to allow companies to contact them for events and invites.
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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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The journalist that leaked this is a known GGer that worked for nichegamer. They are probably very happy about the leak.
Wouldn't a telephone or email address suffice? Not sure why a physical apartment / home address would be necessary. At the very least just a zip code to give publishers a general idea of where journalists / influencers are located.
If you went to the E3 with a 'media' badge. Then yes, you are affected. (as per what I was told in this thread)
You know the ESA is going to try their hardest to keep E3 2020 to happen, since it's where they get like... 80% or something of their total revenue.
This is a freaking nightmare. I hope the ESA gets mega-slapped for this and do whatever they can to help people affected by this... somehow. I don't know how.
I said on SIFTD that I thought they should have to provide accounts on their behalf (pay for them) to anyone on that list for a MyIDCare account, but I'm not sure how much identity theft is a concern for this, just like harassment and threats from terrible shit-ass people.
I still think there's a place for conventions, because it's not cost effective for the media to go to every company individually unless they're developer hotspots, but E3 has become a horrible chimera that tries to cover the media, developers, and consumers. It was always gonna crumble, this just sped things up.
I'm hoping we get smaller scale, media-and-industry only events in the wake of this, spread throughout the year. The likes of PAX and EGX, and hopefully PSX, Nintendo Stores, and that Xbox thing, could carry on the consumer-facing angle.
Yep, I know. They frequent KiA and IIRC even held an AMA on it as recently as just last month. She also has a Kiwifarms account and has posted there a number of times too. She now works for Colin Moriarty.
Being former press myself, you would get things physically mailed to you all the time relating to E3 for a variety of reasons including physical invitations. It really depends on the company, what they were trying to accomplish and what they were trying to get to you.
Ah I see. I'd imagine after this a lot of people in the industry will get PO Boxes out of lack of faith in how these organizers protect their information.
Like, how can E3 be trusted to handle info again? At this point it's only safe to send devs and journalists whose information has already been leaked.
Apologies if this was known information already. Just wanted to make sure people knew who the news-broker were, so as not to legitimize them. This leak could have potentially dangerous results to certain demographics among gaming journalists, and seeing people thank that GGer for releasing the video is both ironic and sad.
There are a lot of streamers and youtube personalities, among them ***** and several Mixer users.
This is a major fuck up.
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No worries! I don't know how much of it is known by some, but it doesn't hurt to have more people that are in the know to help make the information more known.
This should be added to the OP since it's helpful.
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For what it's worth, to pick up my media badge I had to show photo ID (in my case, since I don't live in the US, a passport) with my address on it. I didn't get anything from companies - that was all emailed.
As a youtuber who has managed to keep my real name off the internet for 7+ years, this would have been quite fucked.
Thankfully I'm too broke and unimportant at 70k subs to even think about attending E3.
I've got friends with much bigger channels who've had people just show up at the front door, it's scary shit.
First off, it should go without saying that this should not have happened. Having said that, I work at a flight agency and my employer has always instructed us to to use business emails, addresses and phone numbers (extensions) when signing up any sort of business related dealings. It seems like in the video game industry this would make the most sense for those who work at places like IGN, Kotaku, Polygon, etc. Of course this would not help those who do business from their homes such as YouTubers.
Freelancers? Members of the media who don't work for a big corporation?
It isn't just the shit heads in the gaming community that will find this information useful sadly.
I dont rhink this is true. Surely there were more than 2000 people there with media badges right?
That's why I said it would not work for everyone. I mentioned YouTubers as one such example. As for freelancers and the like, there are always other ways around this, create a separate email for these events, register a domain and host an email yourself, use a PO Box, etc. While neither of these solutions are foolproof, it's certainly better than using your personal information. The real solution is for people to stop being assholes, but this is the real world and that will never happen.
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ESA's neglect and amateurism is beyond irresponsible. I am really worried of what could happen, especially for some outlets and journalists who have been KiA's (among others fucking disgraces of communities) targets for a while.
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Fuck, I hope nothing bad happened already.
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Fuck, I hope nothing bad happened already.
I've seen the list...and I'm on it.
Not worried in the slightest; it definitely sucks and it's soured my feelings on the ESA that bit more and even my interest in attending next year's E3, but life goes on. I'm not going to get overly-dramatic or anything. Another day, another intention to keep writing about video games. Although I'll tell you what I do find hilarious (if one can even find humour in such a thing like this) and providing that the context in such words is the same as I'm perceiving it but....I've seen someone proclaim: "...if you're on this list and you're not covering this....YOU'RE PROTECTING THE ESA!!!"
Can't be anything down to other writing/personal commitments or anything of the sort. No, I'M SUPER-DUPER-CORRUPT'n'SHIT.......who knew?
Not worried in the slightest; it definitely sucks and it's soured my feelings on the ESA that bit more and even my interest in attending next year's E3, but life goes on. I'm not going to get overly-dramatic or anything. Another day, another intention to keep writing about video games. Although I'll tell you what I do find hilarious (if one can even find humour in such a thing like this) and providing that the context in such words is the same as I'm perceiving it but....I've seen someone proclaim: "...if you're on this list and you're not covering this....YOU'RE PROTECTING THE ESA!!!"
Can't be anything down to other writing/personal commitments or anything of the sort. No, I'M SUPER-DUPER-CORRUPT'n'SHIT.......who knew?
I hope nobody won't, the ESA (and consequently E3) should be done after this. This is way to big to give them a pass.
I was about to suggest HaveIBeenPwned, but I remembered the site had been put up for sale 3 weeks ago.
Further Reminders
Official Staff Communication
Hello everyone as a reminder please be extra careful about not making posts that may include clues about how to find the list -- it's all over the place at this point but we can do our part to not help it spread further.
Also you can confirm who is NOT on the list, but please take care not to confirm that anyone is on the list unless that individual has volunteered that information publicly. Thank you
Also you can confirm who is NOT on the list, but please take care not to confirm that anyone is on the list unless that individual has volunteered that information publicly. Thank you
Uhm good for you? So your take away from this situation is "how dare these random people indirectly tell me what to do"?
Plenty of other folks are now prone to life threatening situations in the worst case. If you don't want to write about that, you don't need to justify it. Many others can't take it as easy as you obviously can.
has a searchable list that shows first, last and company name, but doesn't show phone number, email or physical address. Seems safer than trying to hunt down or share the full list.
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This is a real shame for everyone involved. I'm so sorry for the crap you may be going through. :(
User Banned (1 week): Downplaying doxxing and harassment over several posts.
Most people are overreacting here. If someone knew a particular journalist's name, because of the leaks due to Equifax and now Capital One, they could buy a lot more comprehensive information including finances, income, and much more. Worrying about 2,000 member leak (which is certainly unfortunate) seems to be worrying about a puddle in the middle of a thunderstorm.
If I go to the hardware store and buy a crowbar I can get into your house. So you might as well just give me the key to your front door and save us both some time and money. Right?
The truly dedicated assholes never had any problems. Even ignoring the many other PII breaches in the past few years there is so much info online that you can find just about anybody if you try hard enough
What this breach does is provide an easily searchable database and a giant flag for the stupider assholes. The ones who might just take pictures "for the lulz" or who are bored and think swatting someone is funny or that they should totally go tell "a filthy SJW" why they are wrong after they get off work.
