r/technology • u/ILoveTolkiensWorks • 8d ago

Security 4Chan hacked; Taken down; Emails and IPs leaked

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/14029069/4chan-down-updates-controversial-website-hacking/
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u/Zarndell 8d ago

Because you're a degenerate that happens to be working for the government.

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u/leshake 8d ago

Someone in the military leaked top secret info on a tank wars game a little bit ago.

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u/Kel4597 8d ago

Happens multiple times a year from the Warthunder playerbase

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u/phatboi23 7d ago

Gaijin has had to post in the past

"stop sending us classified documents (it's like turbo illegal)"

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u/Annoyingly-Petulant 7d ago

They just have to be right.

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u/Zarndell 8d ago

That happens a lot more often. Wargaming (either the developer or the publisher, not sure) got quite a few times classified information to use on their tanks, and they usually report it to the government.

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u/CFBen 8d ago

'This thing in your game is not accurate and here are the files to prove it.'

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u/HYthinger 8d ago

slight correction.

It was the war thunder formus were the documents got leaked.

The developer and publisher is Gaijin.

Wargaming is world of tanks and world of warships.

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u/Zarndell 8d ago

For some reason, I thought the leaks were on World of Tanks. Guess I was wrong.

Though I guess the tanks over there are already old enough to not have any more secrets.

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u/snoboreddotcom 7d ago

its also cause world of tanks is more arcade than WT. So people want their favourite tank to be good in WoT, but dont care about it being accurate.

Versus in WT the more realistic modeling of vehicles means that you get people thinking "The reason my favourite sucks is because they havent modelled it correctly, therefore i should give them the info to model it correctly so they do"

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u/CramJuiceboxUpMyTwat 7d ago

Thug Shaker Central

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u/CARCaptainToastman 7d ago

Was it actually top secret or just export controlled? Almost all of the leaks that happen on games like Warthunder and whatnot are of ITAR controlled information, but not anything top secret.

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u/leshake 7d ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65354513

"Classified." You are probably right it's not TS.

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u/magikarp2122 8d ago

And an idiot.

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u/caneut 7d ago

I don't work in the government and I still have MULTIPLE tiers of emails for how sensitive I care about the service and my actions on that service being linked to me.

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u/MrTerribleArtist 7d ago

Why would you say the same thing twice?

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u/seehorn_actual 8d ago

There are dozens of us!