Hackers recently gained access to Activision Blizzard’s internal networks through a phishing attack. Once inside, they revealed some sensitive personal information, as well as game data belonging to the company’s workers. A screenshot shared on Twitter reveals that on December 4 last year, hackers used a phishing attack to obtain a verification code from an Activision employee. With this code, hackers recently gained access to Activision Blizzard’s internal networks through a phishing attack. Once inside, they revealed some sensitive personal information, as well as game data belonging to the company’s workers. A screenshot shared on Twitter reveals that on December 4 last year, hackers used a phishing attack to obtain a verification code from an Activision employee. With this code, the hackers were able to access the employee’s Slack account and steal some internal files belonging to the company. Since the person in question worked in human resources, it follows that the hackers were able to access a significant amount of confidential information related to other workers at the company. The hackers continued their attempts to trick other workers into clicking on dangerous links, but luckily none of the other employees fell for their tricks.
According to the information that was leaked, the confidential files contain sensitive personal information of the employees, such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, salaries and workplaces, in addition to the seasonal update plan for the upcoming Modern Warfare DLC. 2, which includes information such as update times and content. The information was leaked by a former employee. Additionally, information was provided on planned downloadable content for “Modern Warfare 2,” “Call of Duty 2023” (codenamed Jupiter), and “Call of Duty 2024” (codenamed Cerberus). discovered that it has been compromised.
Activision is the company that created and published the first version of the “Call of Duty” first-person shooter video game series in 2003. So far, 19 official titles have been distributed as part of this series.
The primary development environment has not been compromised, as far as can be determined from currently available information, and the information that has been released about the game appears to consist mostly of marketing material that is not very relevant.
Activision has made the following comment regarding this incident:
The protection of our data is of the utmost importance, and for this we have implemented strict information security processes to guarantee your privacy”. On December 4, 2022, a member of our information security team responded quickly to an SMS phishing attempt and quickly fixed the issue. After conducting a thorough investigation, we came to the conclusion that critical employee data, game code, and player data had not been obtained.
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