Glass Shark
Banned
These are not even real hackers. They're script kiddies who probably tricked Phil into clicking on something that looked like a login link to another website. It's child's play, but it's scarily easy to fall prey to.
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Polytron Hacked?
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These are not even real hackers. They're script kiddies who probably tricked Phil into clicking on something that looked like a login link to another website. It's child's play, but it's scarily easy to fall prey to.
This industry is not ready for individuals in the development community to become noticeable "stars". Look at what has now happened over a very small controversy when compared to things that have happened in other entertainment circles. I would hate to see how things turn out after a real scandal.
Honestly better to just stay away, I mean it's not impossible that anyone calling the numbers or doing other things with it could be implicated in the crime.
Sylverstone14
Member
This all is just batshit crazy.
AusRoachman
Member
Zoë ʻGRANOSʼ Quinn ‏@TheQuinnspiracy
this isn't about me. this was never about me. this is about entitlement of people on the lives of the creators of the things they consume.
this isn't about me. this was never about me. this is about entitlement of people on the lives of the creators of the things they consume.
Lastgengamer
Member
Touche.
Edit:
joshrholloway said...
"These are not even real hackers. They're script kiddies who probably tricked Phil into clicking on something that looked like a login link to another website. It's child's play, but it's scarily easy to fall prey to."
Well damn, the internet can be a frightening place if one dares to make their presence known.
If they're...fake
Altered Juice
Member
Hoo wheeee it's got to take a special kind of dumbass to download that file. prob threw a keylogger in there or something.
Tawney Bomb
Member
The Zoe thing and this with Phil, people are acting really stupid over things that don't concern them and it sucks that it looks like it's an us vs them thing going on when it's really not close to that.
...don't be fooled by what?
/v/ is like Hamas, they can claim they didn't kidnap Israeli teenagers all day, but some dude is gonna claim they're from Hamas and that they did it, which may or may not be the same thing.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Zoe's Dropbox was also hacked. Ugh, this is really disgusting. These are horrible crimes people are doing. And yes, I understand why devs and journalists are blaming gamers. It's obvious they don't mean everybody, they never did. But there are a lot of gamers inside our community that are just horrible human beings. This needs to be addressed.
Also, 2-step authentication should be mandatory everywhere.
Also, 2-step authentication should be mandatory everywhere.
andrerobot
Member
I hope these guys get caught.
Hahaha, I'm naturally cynical and that was the first thing that came to mind.
The volume of information collected is just insane and this is going to hit all of the gaming press in no time. It's an easy way to get your name in the headlines and pity purchases on top of it. Of course that is indeed a conspiracy theory unlike the idiots on this forum who like to use that term every time somebody says something that requires more than regurgitating what you're told to believe. In other words I think the far more likely scenario is simply that he was excessively anal in his ordering of information. One misstep in his security and he just delivered every little thing about himself in a nice tidy package.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Who the hell would go through the trouble of faking so many shit for... what?
No, because someone decided to be an asshole.
Fucking idiot. Don't elevate criminal scum by using military pathos.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Online anonymity is a double edged sword. It allows for a great deal of abuse and deflection of any sort of accountability. But it also allows for true, unfiltered discussion.
Dragonborn
Member
Unless I'm mistaken, there was a lot more to it the just that, no?
Banananana
Neo Member
Tactical diversion.
Oh right right
Entitlement.... So tired of that crap being spouted. Don't pigeonhole everyone because of a minority of cunts.
Agreed, this isn't a war. This is criminals doing illegal shit to a person on the internet they don't like. They're not attacking our precious indie devs, they're attacking an individual.
War...War has changed
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Tactical diversion of what?
Anyone can be anyone is my point as well.
There structure works.
If they were behind it people can still say, "hey it wasn't us, they were just claiming to be us!"
If they weren't behind it, the people who are can say, "it was those assholes at 4chan"
I guess im just frustrated because it works. There is nothing to do, no one to blame, and no one to ever take the fall.
The majority, and I stress, the majority of people in this thread don't feel that way.
matrixman92
Member
Wow, even their Paypal info is up.
What a disaster.
Edit: /v/ leader is obviously...
COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY!
Sparrowhawk
Member
Sucks for Phil Fish, the only person he ever hurt was himself.
I'm kind of ashamed that I used to be a Sessler fan, though.
I'm kind of ashamed that I used to be a Sessler fan, though.
IrishNinja
Member
seriously, people...have some perspective here
Kinky John
Member
Tradding cards!
Dude don't you get it, Sessler's like a war journalist, out in the middle of the action, putting himself on the line!
Debunked thoroughly by Twitter and Facebook. People are openly cunts with their names attacked.
Seems like that was from financial docs he had stored on his personal computer. Just looking at the filenames and screenshots, it seems like a data dump more than curated and sniped info. I don't have my SIN on my PC anywhere, I don't have my bank info stored anywhere.
I mean, my bank info can be snooped if my PC was compromised because I do PC banking, but I don't save cookies or anything on my banking site.
Riposte
Member
No, probably not. That is easy to fake.
He's saying some really sad things now
Sounds like something he would say even before this incident.
Fotheringay
Member
Yeah dude it's totally worked so far, /v/ has a squeaky clean reputation here.
PsihoPerihelion
Member
People think is him because his account wasn't hacked. I never thought people could be this naive. Of course the hackers didn't have his account as a target. They want him to react and seem desperate. If you think like one of those guys, you want to see him suffer in real time, so you don't hack him and wait until he recovers the password so you can see him tweet "I got hacked. Everything's fine."
Also, if Mr. Fish suffers from depression as it has been mentioned, there's too many reason to make me think it wasn't him at all. Not that you need a mental illness to come to that conclusion tho.
-MD-
Member
Yeah I'm totally done with Sess.
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