Current Events > DEVELOPING: ESA doxxed over 2000 journalist and attendees at E3

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Only solid info I could find about this was a YouTube video but it's only 4 minutes long.

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Basically they had leaked all the documents and information on their website of all major journalist and attendees at E3. Clearly you can't truly trust any major corporation with your private info. Shocking I know.
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bump
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we're fucked :(.
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Apparently the person who has been reporting this and spreading awareness is getting slammed by ResetEra. Jfc.
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So?
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Superlinkbro posted...

Apparently the person who has been reporting this and spreading awareness is getting slammed by ResetEra. Jfc.

Of course NeoNeogaf would be mad that someone is whistle blowing over the leaks.
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EverDownward posted...

Superlinkbro posted...

Apparently the person who has been reporting this and spreading awareness is getting slammed by ResetEra. Jfc.

Of course NeoNeogaf would be mad that someone is whistle blowing over the leaks.

Yeah. It's just their usual censorship as always. I absolutely hate that website.
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Now everyone knows who went to E3?

So what?
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they didn't doxx them, their data was stolen

of course they had records of the journalists that were there
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So the person who found out allegedly let ESA know and they killed the site before he blabbed about it in public, but the person is getting criticized for letting everyone in on what happened.

I feel like ESA should be getting criticized rather than the person pointing out the problem.

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Superlinkbro posted...

Only solid info I could find about this was a YouTube video but it's only 4 minutes long.

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Colorahdo posted...

Now everyone knows who went to E3?

So what?

Doxing typically refers to releasing information on people that isn't already publicly known, like addresses and phone numbers.
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Colorahdo posted...

Now everyone knows who went to E3?

So what?

Now game "journalists" who have spent the past few years chastising and slandering gamers as being "toxic" and reprehensible are fearing for their lives as they fully believe the sociopathic gamer reputation they created.

So nothing.
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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-08-05-esa-previously-leaked-media-details-public

The databases we have seen contained more than 2,800 listings for journalists who attended one E3, and more than 3,300 for those who attended another.

These listings include full names, job titles, addresses (often work, but some for home), email addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers.

This follows from news that emerged over the weekend that personal details for over 2,000 journalists, YouTubers and analysts were accidentally leaked via an attendance database for E3 2019.

The trade body has since offered an explanation and apologised, but it has done little to calm the outrage within the games media community.

The statement does claim that "for more than 20 years, there has never been an issue." The databases we have seen prove otherwise.

The ESA has issued a statement, which reads in full as follows:

"On August 2, the ESA learned that a confidential file containing the contact information of registered E3 2019 media badge holders could be accessed by individuals other than authorized users. The file was located in a password-protected section of the E3 website, which was intended for exhibitors only.

"As soon as we learned of this issue, we took immediate action. We removed the file from the website, we disabled access to the site's exhibitor portal, and we notified those affected. In addition, we launched a process to locate and remove private and public caches and other publicly-accessible online locations that contained the file.

"In the course of our investigation, we learned that media contact lists from E3 2004 and 2006 were cached on a third-party internet archive site. These were not files hosted on ESA's servers or on the current website. We took immediate steps to have those files removed, and we received confirmation today that all files were taken down from the third-party site. We also immediately notified those persons impacted. General attendee information was not affected in this situation.

Pretty big fuck up.
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ESA might not survive this. Might have to say bye to E3.
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Yeah I think people are overlooking how big of a deal this is.
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Yeah I'm sure a class action lawsuit will happen and EU will probably get them for $20 mil+ easily. I'd be surprised if they survive this.
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Now why would the European Space Agency do a thing like that?
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Tbh I don't think it's a huge deal if E3 dies. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will probably just go and hold their own events. Microsoft and EA basically do that already.
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