A few days ago the company Sony Interactive Entertainment reacted to the situation around the mass leak, as a result of which spoiler clips with gameplay began to spread on the network The Last of Us: Part II. In a statement for GamesIndustry.biz platform holder denied rumors of involvement in the incident employees Naughty dog, noting that the true culprits of the leak have already been identified. The publisher declined to comment further, indicating that the information was part of an ongoing trial.
So who exactly is behind the sink? Editor Bloomberg Jason Schreyer conducted his own investigation, the results of which today shared on his Twitter. In short: the leak was caused by hackers who hacked into the Naughty Dog server.
“Okay: After talking with two people who had direct information on exactly how the TLOU2 leak occurred, as well as with some Naughty Dog employees, I got a good idea of what happened. Short version: hackers discovered a security vulnerability in the patch for the old ND game and used it to access the ND servers. “
Schreyer suggested that the leaked frames might belong to an early test assembly, but the most important thing in this whole story, he believes, is that rumors about the leak, which allegedly became an act of protest on the part of the dissatisfied contractor who was not paid, do not correspond to reality. In fact, Naughty Dog actually increased cash payments and medical benefits for contract workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shortly before Schreier’s publication, a QA tester under the nickname Pixelbutts in details told about exactly how the leak occurred. According to him, the vulnerability was discovered by hackers tentatively back in January, but the developers were able to close it only by the end of April. The bottom line was that all Naughty Dog games have a final patch containing the key Amazon aws, which, together with a secret identifier, provides full access to the contents of the server using the console devkit Playstation 4. Thus, hackers managed to get to the data with regards to Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, the first The Last of Us and other working materials through which, as expected, intruders released on The Last of Us 2. Leakage rates are in terabytes.
The Last of Us: Part II release will take place on June 17th.
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