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The Last of Us Part II - PixelButt's viewpoint on TLOU2 Leak

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PixelButts @PixelButts For those of you interested in TLOU2 leaks and how it happened, here's your rundown I have no idea how many tweets this will be so buckle up 11:49 PM · May 2, 2020 · Twitter Web App 418 Retweets 1.2K Likes PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h Replying to @PixelButts Every ND game has a "final" patch that is pushed to the game that contains an Amazon AWS key, that when paired with a secret bucket ID it will give full access to the server's contents. Theres a different key and bucket ID per game, this is important 27 17 ♡ 241 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h This vulnerability was discovered recently and some hackers took full advantage of it, saving TLOU1, UC3, and other dev stuff. At the time, it was disclosed to me around early February, and was very early on so ~January 2020 it was discovered 3 t7 15 208 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h Come March, keys and data was saved, somewhere around 1-3TB, though I can only say 1TB for sure. They were trying to dump TLOU1 in an effort to get that games key as UC3 had TLOU1 material, so surely TLOU1 had TLOU2? No idea in the end but come April things got spicy 27 12 177 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h In April all the leaks of story were validated by the footage posted. I cannot speak for the text posts with story, but I can say that the dates from discovery and disclosure match with timestamps in the footage as well. You can check yourself, bottom left of all footage 27 11 ♡ 163 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h Come may 30th, late at night, the source that disclosed this to me stated that the key had changed so ND for sure knew how to resolve this issue, and no keys work with the bucket IDs now. This is good but theres more 3 27 10 155 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h The individual that spoke to me is a direct source of this compromise, but is NOT (as far as I am aware, or can tell) not the one that leaked this material. I say this because even they were weirdly skeptical about the "ND employee leaked things because they were mad" 27 10 O 154 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h I've been watching this for about 3 months now, and after speaking to a first hand source of this, my only conclusion is they (and their immediate circle) did not leak it, but shared information relating to what I described, and another party proceeded to leak such material 27 10 163 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h This is not the first time this has happened in circles like this either to boot. I trust their word as a first hand source of this happening, and I trust that theyre not dumb enough to leak it, but whether they leaked everything to get such is another story. 1 t7 10 143 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h In regards to the devkit nonsense: yes you would need a devkit to do this and given that its relatively easy to get one (yes really, it is) this is not very much of a problem. I can say the circle for the vulnerability owns such hardware as well, I've seen the photos ♡ 138 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h What's the point I'm making? The point: there's plenty of room to argue an ND employee is involved, but from the evidence (which I have submitted to ND back in February) stands to point to an ND-made security vulnerability that was exploited. Not an angry employee 27 21 185 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h While I will not give names, I will say this: I've been around, I know leaks, I listen, I watch, I keep tabs on things. I've known about this for months and kept quiet publicly but since it's blocked out now and news coverage confirmed what I've known I decided to say so publicly 27 10 142 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h I have no affiliation with the group, I have no materials from the leak, and I'm not going to. I had my ass bitten once and I dont need a second round of it, but putting the truth out there is important, because even then you'll still have people saying it was an ND employee 27 13 153 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h Don't believe what sounds like the juiciest story, even if it's what you wanna hear. Sometimes it's really that boring. Hackerman exploiting a vulnerability created by the company's own games to gain internal access. Hopefully this has been enlightening for you 27 18 215 PixelButts @PixelButts · 17h And as one final note: the person that spoke to me asked me about my previous legal run-in. That's primarily what led to this disclosure to begin with. I do not advocate or suggest stealing and leaking. Preservation is important, but dont do it through stealing. 27 10 148 PixelButts @PixelButts · 15h Tacking this onto the bottom since people insist that it was an ND employee when no, it wasnt. Why you think it's an ND employee that leaked this is still baffling to me Anthony Vaccaro @vaccaro3d · May 1 Like in case you were unaware, cyber crime divisions almost always find out who is responsible for leaked company information no matter the line of work or type of industry you are in. It's their full time job and they will find you eventually :) twitter.com/GIBiz/status/1. 27 17 167

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wisehowl_the_2nd

May 03, 2020 at 07:04PM EDT

That's a lot of anonymous sources going on right there. I of all people know WHY it would have to be from anonymous sources but that doesn't change the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of said claims or that they jumped to a quick conclusion based on vibes they got from the individual accounts. Also:

"yes it's really easy to get a devkit"

Wish I could say the same here for us non-PS4 devs ._.

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