probably. some very big publishers sent journos to E3 and they're likely to lawyer up hard for damages since cleaning up this mess costs money.
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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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Considering how fucked up gamergaters are and the lengths they go to make life miserable for journos, this is very bad.
Wishing the best for all the industry folks and journalist for the absolute shitty situation ESA has left them in.
It's like August 2014 never ended.
It's like August 2014 never ended.
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Steve Bowling posted a great thread on Twitter summarizing some steps you should take.
Broadly, tell your friend to...
A. Contact their carrier, explain the situation, and change their phone number
B. Set up two-factor authentication on their Google/AppleID accounts and frankly anything else that allows it
C. Be cautious with unexpected packages and visitors, and screen phone calls
D. Be in touch with local law enforcement the moment any threat is made containing personal information
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There is absolutely precedent for a class action lawsuit to be taken against the ESA, yes. That's not a guarantee of success, but this is not new territory.
Would now be a good idea to move E3 to Europe where data is protected by GDPR?
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According to the article posted in the OP, it's entirely possible there's already a GDPR issue, as the site was accessible from Europe and contained private info on European citizens. This is admittedly an area where I personally am not super well educated.
They might want to preemptively contact them to fully explain the situation, to potentially prevent dangerous situations like 'swatting'.
if you were credentialed as "media" for E3 2019, you're on the list. it's everyone
If you attended E3 this year on a media badge assume your info is on the list.
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If I had gone to E3 this year in any official capacity I would assume that I was affected. I'm loathe to direct people to the vile site hosting the info currently, but Imran appeared to know he wasn't affected, so he may know a safe way to check.
C is especially frustrating because those of us who work from home often just get packages from PR with documents or marketing materials or the like.
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Yup. When I worked for NOA it would have been impossible for me to screen my mail and packages.
Oh no. Jesus fucking christ.
This is going to hurt a lot of people.
God, ESA better be taken to the fucking task for this.
This is going to hurt a lot of people.
God, ESA better be taken to the fucking task for this.
We need a new word for this because this level of malfeasance isn't a "leak."
Publicly accessible private info is terrible and the ESA deserves to be sued for this because we all know how bad gamergate crowd is.
At the same time I hope this leads to some push back from game devs and publishers because most of them have been ignoring or downplaying how toxic or dangerous some of their fans are and they have some responsibility in shaping that subculture.
Publicly accessible private info is terrible and the ESA deserves to be sued for this because we all know how bad gamergate crowd is.
At the same time I hope this leads to some push back from game devs and publishers because most of them have been ignoring or downplaying how toxic or dangerous some of their fans are and they have some responsibility in shaping that subculture.
Yes this means it's impacted. If your users are citizens of the EU you are affected.
Others will take its place. If I'm an exhibitor, member of the press, content creator, VIP, I'm looking to join a class action or hoping a prosecutor's office somewhere is building a case for criminal negligence against the ESA. This breach isn't the sort of thing that should blow over after a fine. It was bad enough in 2015 when psychopaths had to work to unearth their targets' info. Now the ESA has just handed it over for free.
Someone in that thread is straight up ECSTATIC that this has happened. Holy hell, this is a horrible industry.
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Thank you for linking the thread directly. I've been trying to do this while also talking to mutuals AND being at work on top of it all.
yeah it's just a sign of things to come, report/block liberally it's the only tools bystanders have at the moment.
Even the replies in this thread prove how serious this is. There's multiple harassers and alt right absolute scum and that's just one thread.
It's not just one person... These people are incapable of empathy. What fuckwits.
How do you even do this "accidentally"?. Jesus, I feel bad for whoever got their personal information exposed.
Sheer incompetence. There should always be an organized plan for the segmentation of public/nonpublic data hosted on any kind of internet-connected service as well as strict access control guards around any nonpublic data, and that was clearly not observed here.
Isn't that a kindly way to say that they fucked up. Anyway I hope everything will be okay somehow.
I was once sent a list of names in a spreadsheet to upload to a website. Good thing I checked the document, because the person who sent it to me fucked up the data export and the spreadsheet actually contained not just the relevant names, it contained the names, addresses, date of birth, sallary, and phone number of every person in the entire organization.
And could very well be the person who delivered the message to the likes of Kiwifarms, a known harassment site who has had it with many media reporters.
Oh god. I mean, I consider Kiwifarms users to be trash persons as is but KiA? Yep, she definitely should not be given a stage here.
A dipshit finding it out first doesn't change the fact that they found it out first. I see this as VentureBeat crediting their source, and I think that is fair.
You know? This is crazy. I could understand why someone would have interest in acquiring the personal information of certain people to do evil things with it, but to go after people who write about videogames, of all people, just shows how fucked up our priorities have become.
cool my info is actually on that list too. Explains why i had 6 phone calls and 10 random text messages. Good job ESA.
Thankfully the address listed for me is old, and the email I used was a business email. The only bit of information from mine that personally identifiable is my phone number which I can deal with.