2019-08-06 - Electronic Software Association: "Removal of Protected Content"

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Here's another stunning leader of the ESA. The head of E3. Dan Hewitt.
dhewitt@theesa.com and his boss Andy Bowins abowins@theesa.com
 
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iamcitizeninsane said:
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THERES MORE! LOL. I bet if you looked none of the ESA sites are even well protected.
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Well that last line is a lie.
"Received confirmation today that all files either been taken down or are in the process of being removed from the third-party site"
Received confirmation from whom? That sentence doesn't even make sense if they can't state whether or not it was taken down or is being taken down.
 
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Ellesse_warrior said:
Well that last line is a lie.
"Received confirmation today that all files either been taken down or are in the process of being removed from the third-party site"
Received confirmation from whom? That sentence doesn't even make sense if they can't state whether or not it was taken down or is being taken down.
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You know if they just were truthful how they fucked up I bet this would go over much easier. But here they are lying.
 
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I can smell the soy emanating from this letter from thousands of miles away. No idea how anyone on their PR team would have gotten FTP access to an external-facing corporate server. And there's no obvious explanation for how a spreadsheet originating with their PR team got uploaded to their website anyway. It's almost as if someone fucked them up on purpose.
 
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iamcitizeninsane said:
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THERES MORE! LOL. I bet if you looked none of the ESA sites are even well protected.
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This is going to go down well in the upcoming GDPR lawsuit from all the Europeans affected. Not only were ESA apparently notified in February but they've had two previous data leaks as well, and it took them 15 and 13 years respectively to alert people to them.
 
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You know if they just were truthful how they fucked up I bet this would go over much easier. But here they are lying.
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I think they are trying to downplay the data protection aspect of this and that's why they used Copyright law rather than DP law when asking Null to take it down. It's not just the US DP laws they have to deal with but GDPR and other international DP laws, most of which have been updated to be quite similar to GDPR since 2018. They didn't act when they were first notified and haven't been able to secure the data either which makes it messy. There are very few home addresses and personal phone numbers on the spread sheet though, it is mostly business addresses and business email addresses and phone numbers, this wouldn't have been such a big deal if they had of acted when they were first notified.
 
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niggers said:
wow i didnt notice that

come on at least put a fake lawyer letterhead on your worthless threats
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>tfw even your own bottom feeding lawyer laughs at you and says to write it yourself

Ellesse_warrior said:
I think they are trying to downplay the data protection aspect of this and that's why they used Copyright law rather than DP law when asking Null to take it down.
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I don't think they want to admit the GDPR may be applicable. So they're doing the bare minimum to comply with the fact they're supposed to do something to try to contain the breach, without actually admitting why they're doing it. The copyright argument is so piss-weak they're not even bothering to bolster it with a lawyer.
 
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, but are not limited to: 505 Games, Activision Publishing, Inc., Bethesda Softworks LLC, Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom USA, Inc., Electronic Arts (EA), Epic Games, Inc., Konami Digital Entertainment, Microsoft Corporation, Bandai Namco Games America Inc., Nintendo of America Inc., SEGA of America, Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment, Square Enix, Inc., Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“Take-Two Interactive”), and Ubisoft Entertainment, Inc.
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80 % of the companies they represent are the absolute trash of the industry why im not surprised
 
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AnOminous said:
I don't think they want to admit the GDPR may be applicable. So they're doing the bare minimum to comply with the fact they're supposed to do something to try to contain the breach, without actually admitting why they're doing it. The copyright argument is so piss-weak they're not even bothering to bolster it with a lawyer.
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They're required to report the data breach to the regulatory office in every country that has a citizen that's had their data leaked, and they needed to do it back in February, when the data leak was first reported, and then fix that shit. But of course they continued uploading PII for another three months to a platform they were informed was insecure, so not only did they not do anything to inform the relevant people about the information breach, but they added more information.
 
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MirnaMinkoff said:
Anyone know who was responsible or at least got the blame for the epic fuck-up? I just wondered if one person or many got fired. I can’t imagine the finger pointing this epic leak caused.

I’m sure some poor lowly schlubs got thrown under the bus too.
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That would be Mr Dan Hewiit (dhewitt@theesa.com) and Mr Andy Bowins (abowins@theesa.com/@justandybowins). ESA’s website list them as the comms leaders for esa and e3.

Enjoy
 
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This is happening while the president attacks video games. So not only do they look fucking incompetent to their own industry. But they also look downright disorganized and fucking stupid in the eyes of every lobby and the gun lobby. It sure would suck to have your emails jammed up with this shit while trying to stop the president.
 
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