Gaming Companies Flag 'Highly Skilled Hackers' as Emerging Piracy Threat * TorrentFreak
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Entertainment Software Association, which represents several major gaming companies, compiled an overview of Notorious 'pirate' Markets.

Well public relations 101 is that you refer to anyone who breaches your security as “highly skilled “

I worked at one of the majors pre-Microsoft acquisition. “Highly skilled” is actually a relative comparison to the security teams at gaming companies, not an industry benchmark comparison. The bar for highly skilled plummets once you include things like social platforms, launchers, and telemetry.

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A highly skilled hacker guessed that our admin password was "admin2019“

Wasn’t the guy who hacked Rockstar a kid?

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My local government mastered this secret technique.

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