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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Marketing stunt? by InsaneLampshade · 2013-04-09 11:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

Is it all just one big marketing stunt?
Unreleased game, footage of it being played?? by swilde23 · 2013-04-09 14:19 · Score: 5, Interesting

Either the hackers are also great bug fixers, or the game was more ready for prime-time then some of the crap that is marked "gold".
I wish someone would hack my computer, and fix all my bugs :(

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