ESA leaked private information of every member of the press who attended E3

[matrix07012]

ESA leaked private information of every member of the press who attended E3

 

Summary:

There was a publicly accessible link on the E3 website linking to a spreadsheet with private information of journalists and content creators who attended this year's E3 including their home addresses and phone numbers. The page was taken down after Sophie contacted ESA, but it's unknown how long it was available. 

 

 

This is a big oof on the part of the people who run the site.

Some people on Twitter say Kiwifarms got their hands on it, but I haven't checked. It's almost definitely out there. 

 

Update:

https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1157492567379972096?s=20 (for some reason it doesn't want to embed)

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Oh no. A source has reached out. They must remain anonymous for their own sake, but the ESA has known of this issue since February. This is insider information from a verified source. The ESA's incompetence grows. JFC. There's way more than meets the eye here.

Well. That's even a bigger oof. 

 

Source:

 

Edited August 3, 2019 by matrix07012
Twitter link with newer info

[WelshDdraig]

They have known about this since February? And if it's on Kiwifarms, that information is not going to disappear any time soon...
Well, in the words of Jimmy Carr...

Spoiler

 

[matrix07012]

So I just checked and yes, it's all on Kiwifarms. 

[WelshDdraig]

1 hour ago, matrix07012 said:

So I just checked and yes, it's all on Kiwifarms. 

I just found it myself on there by doing a quick google search.
This is not going to be pretty. I would say "I hope this information doesn't lead to anything" but since it's on the farms - well... only time will tell.
And since its on the farms, I'm 99% sure it'll stay on the farms (and by that, I mean - not taken down from there.)

[TetraSky]

Well, that.. Is ridiculously bad.

For the journalists who used their workplace's address and use a work phone it's not so bad, but the homes who put in their actual personal info, God damn...

[rcmaehl]

 

 

Information is easily available to anyone who can use the right search terms in 30 seconds. 2000+ media attendees

[RejZoR]

Is everything being run by incompetent idiots these days?

[laminutederire]

5 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Is everything being run by incompetent idiots these days?

Yes.

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

Is everything being run by incompetent idiots these days?

Too many people in the higher ups of companies have zero clue about computers or network security. Then they start meddling with their unreasonable "demands" to IT, all while disregarding IT's concerns about the demands and suddenly you have this shit happen.

I seriously wouldn't be surprised if it was someone up above that asked for a list of all attendees (for whatever reason) and their staff just said "fuck it" and gave them a quick a dirty link to download it all without any protection in place before the person demanding it is likely a God damn idiot who wouldn't be able to figure it out if it was spelled out for them.

[spartaman64]

wtf who thought that putting that up was a good idea. from what it sounds like it wasnt a mistake or something as it would require some effort to put together the info into a spreadsheet and then uploading it to the website so it seems like somebody thought it was a good thing to do

[Salv8 (sam)]

us rn:

people who actually attended: 

 

[justpoet]

7 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Is everything being run by incompetent idiots these days?

Having previously been an IT consultant….the number of times somebody from an IT department or the Head of Technology or some such thing told me "Oh, put a password on it like 12345 so it'll be secure instead of open to everybody" or "Please use this password that we put on everything" was way more than I could count, and I only did the consulting for a couple years.  So, yes…yes it is.

[Derangel]

17 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Is everything being run by incompetent idiots these days?

These days? Things have always been run by idiots with more dollar bills than brain cells.

[LAwLz]

18 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Too many people in the higher ups of companies have zero clue about computers or network security. Then they start meddling with their unreasonable "demands" to IT, all while disregarding IT's concerns about the demands and suddenly you have this shit happen.

I seriously wouldn't be surprised if it was someone up above that asked for a list of all attendees (for whatever reason) and their staff just said "fuck it" and gave them a quick a dirty link to download it all without any protection in place before the person demanding it is likely a God damn idiot who wouldn't be able to figure it out if it was spelled out for them.

And then in some other thread we have people talking about how it's a good idea to have companies deliberately design their products with backdoors in them, and then in another thread we have people saying "who cares what info people have on me. I got nothing to hide".