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Hackers Swipe Unreleased Game From Ubisoft
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.
If only there was some way to: ... both accidentally and on purpose.
... maybe they'll be onto something.
- Distribute games without using uPlay and alternatives (like Origin)
- Partition, or even separate the storage of sensitive information physically from the internet
- Create new, exciting franchised that engage the community
- Stop releasing garbage
When a game studio figures out how to do that
- Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
This begs the question of what an unreleased and undocumented game was doing on a server designed specifically to distribute as many copies of the game as possible. This is weapons-grade stupidity.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
The only thing to really say is.
"And nothing of value was lost."
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Assuming this wasn't done as a huge publicity stunt, isn't it just hilariously ironic that a DRM system designed to prevent (or at the very least slow down) piracy was used to access a game that hasn't even been announced yet? I hope this is used as a message to further show how futile attempts at stopping piracy like this are and how they actually hurt the paying customer.