Hackers Swipe Unreleased Game From Ubisoft

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 9, 2013 @11:20AM from the somehow-not-stymied-by-DRM dept.

hypnosec writes with news that a group of Russian hackers has compromised the security of Ubisoft's digital distribution platform, uPlay, finding a way for users of the service to download any of its games for free. What makes this particularly notable is that the hackers found a copy of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, an unreleased spin-off of Far Cry 3 that hasn't even been officially announced (except as part of an April Fool's joke). The hackers posted a half-hour of gameplay footage to YouTube, and Ubisoft took uPlay down to fix the security vulnerability. They say no user information was compromised.

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What did they expect? by fox171171 · 2013-04-09 11:22 · Score: 5, Funny

That's what they get for being "always on".
Silly Russians. by conspirator23 · 2013-04-09 11:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't they know that zero-day warez are supposed to be leaked by employees?
Re:If only there was ... by viperidaenz · 2013-04-09 11:57 · Score: 4, Funny

I'll take your proposal further and say we should used cardboard boxes to distribute the games.
It will be revolutionary
Re:Har`first by Archimagus · 2013-04-09 14:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh come on... EA is at least a contender.