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LectureMaster
Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
Cyberpunkd
Member
First thing I thought:serves them right.. Only hipster scripters use crap like Mongodb
daninthemix
Member
And only one day after I made my "Has Ubisoft been punished for Warrior Within?" thread. Coincidence?
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Maybe the hackers left some good games on their servers
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Sand Dan Glokta
Member
GTAVI?
Aressa
You can't die before your death
This is so cringe what the hell.
DenimDevil
Member
Kicking Ubi while they're down...
I'll drink to that.
I'll drink to that.
Soodanim
Member
It might be the same show where they unplug a monitor to stop a hacker
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It is that scene
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NeonDelta
Member
Maybe this is all an AR campaign for the next watchdogs
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
STARSBarry
Gold Member
The hackers for siege fucked up.
They should of given away like $200 of premium currency to everyone, made a fake message about how it was part of the 10th anniversary celebration as a thank you to the community, and let the community naturally celebrate and thank Ubisoft. Only for Ubisoft to after working out what was going on roll it all back and completely piss off the community.
With being so blatant and obvious, they essentially allowed Ubisoft to come up with an "acceptable" roll back reason that people will just let slide. Had it been done as above the community would have exploded and "why cant you just let us keep $200 of made up currency for the 10th anniversary? Itl be gone by next week anyway" kinda posts would show up infinitely. Forcing Ubisoft to either just let people keep it, or tank their community good will during a major event.
Cool that they could do it, but they didn't think about what would cause maximum damage, and effectively did nothing for the players.
As for this group, if full source code has been taken, then this could result in some intresting things happening on release or literally nothing.
They should of given away like $200 of premium currency to everyone, made a fake message about how it was part of the 10th anniversary celebration as a thank you to the community, and let the community naturally celebrate and thank Ubisoft. Only for Ubisoft to after working out what was going on roll it all back and completely piss off the community.
With being so blatant and obvious, they essentially allowed Ubisoft to come up with an "acceptable" roll back reason that people will just let slide. Had it been done as above the community would have exploded and "why cant you just let us keep $200 of made up currency for the 10th anniversary? Itl be gone by next week anyway" kinda posts would show up infinitely. Forcing Ubisoft to either just let people keep it, or tank their community good will during a major event.
Cool that they could do it, but they didn't think about what would cause maximum damage, and effectively did nothing for the players.
As for this group, if full source code has been taken, then this could result in some intresting things happening on release or literally nothing.
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TheDarkPhantom
Member
Yeah, Ubi is neck high in shit right about now
Uncle Moe
Member
Zombi U is great, one of the few Wii U games to incorporate interesting and meaningful second-screen gameplay. Reminds me that there was once such a thing as an innovative Ubisoft.
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Fake
Member
The gif lacks 'A Ubisoft game' logo.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It's almost as bad as someone using the word cringe.
Aressa
You can't die before your death
What's wrong with the word cringe?
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
It's become cringey.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Now if the hackers can put $13m in everyone's Wells Fargo or Coinbase accounts...Hopefully these people didn't have Internet facing connections or patched as soon as the exploit was published.
Grildon Tundy
Member
A movie script:
-Company A is looking to acquire/takeover/stripmine Ubisoft (e.g., buying IPs or taking them private)
-Current prices are too high for what Company A wants to pay, so they consider unethical means to lower costs
-Hires hacker group to hit Uni while they're weakened, resulting in negative PR and lower costs of sale
-A plot hole would be that releasing the source code for games would also hurt Company A's product value, so they tell the hackers not to sell it to anyone but Company A/or to hold on to it, but then Company A would need to pay the hackers more than the hackers would get for selling, but also less than the gain Company A gains by hurting Ubi's reputation.
I dunno, I don't trust much these days so my mind first went to corporate espionage. Is there anything to this strategy? If the hack isn't corporate-backed, what is the motivation for hackers to do this?
-Company A is looking to acquire/takeover/stripmine Ubisoft (e.g., buying IPs or taking them private)
-Current prices are too high for what Company A wants to pay, so they consider unethical means to lower costs
-Hires hacker group to hit Uni while they're weakened, resulting in negative PR and lower costs of sale
-A plot hole would be that releasing the source code for games would also hurt Company A's product value, so they tell the hackers not to sell it to anyone but Company A/or to hold on to it, but then Company A would need to pay the hackers more than the hackers would get for selling, but also less than the gain Company A gains by hurting Ubi's reputation.
I dunno, I don't trust much these days so my mind first went to corporate espionage. Is there anything to this strategy? If the hack isn't corporate-backed, what is the motivation for hackers to do this?
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Based
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
An exploit was released Christmas Eve. Hackers immediately look for exploitable databases before patches are applied - find a big one and go to town. Nothing more complicated than that. No more motivation needed than it being possible, likely for a short window and the possibility of getting some money through ransom maybe.
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spookyfish
Gold Member
Disney contract rider: "Can we make the jawline bigger? Like, HUGE?"
Dirk Benedict
Member
Why didn't they do this before the Saudi's got involved?
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Exploit details were released Christmas Eve.
Pasta la Vista
Member
They will uncover the new Ass Creed set in Antartica.
winjer
Gold Member
I bet this hack ruined the Xmas holidays for the IT personnel.
As much as I hate Ubisoft, it still sucks that it's the workers that get screwed by this.
