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Ubisoft apparently stopped a 900GB data breach (mashable.com)
submitted 9 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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It's not clear yet how much, if anything, the hackers got.

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

Or in modern terms, two games.

[-] Index@lemmy.wtf 4 points 9 months ago

Not too far off actually.

I work in game dev and source assets for games are huge before getting cooked/compressed/packaged for a release build.

Had access to the Fortnite source a few years ago and it was roughly 1TB, but I'm guessing it's much larger now though.

[-] Tremble@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

How do they know the specific amount of data if they stopped it.

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Transfer in progress got cancelled?

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 points 9 months ago

Stopped it at 94% complete. Mission accomplished.

[-] mihnt@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Just like how they make their games!

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 1 points 9 months ago

94% seems pretty generous.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

If hackers had access to the computer you're using right now, how much data is stored on it?

[-] Tremble@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago

Not an expert but there’s the whole operating system which is so many gigs and then the photos and stuff

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Well... either hackers found a hard drive with fifteen copies of Windows 11 installed... or there was about 900 GB of project data vulnerable.

[-] Davel23@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago

I don't trust Ubisoft to have the degree of opsec necessary to prevent something like this. Hell, I don't trust Ubisoft to have the degree of opsec necessary to notice it happened ex post facto.

[-] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago

The only reason I know about Ubisoft is because I was gifted the second South Park game. I still play it on drinking nights when nobody has ideas. If I want to start a fight, I use a save game during either one of the male abortions.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I will actually go ahead and belive that when they did notice this they thought it was to steal their source code and stopped it, but once they figured out it wasn't they sent it to marketing to make them look good, like they meant to protect their customers or something.

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