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Blizzard’s Chinese GM quits after large data breach

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Dissent

Matthew Humphries writes about major fallout following the exposure of confidential files on the Internet:

All is not well at the offices of Blizzard China. Last week a large data breach occurred which saw financial data, media packages, commercial budgets, global subscriber details, and worst of all–the road map for future game releases all taken.

[…]

The fallout from this data breach is Blizzard’s General Manager for China, one Ye Weilun, has either left or been kicked out, but the reports suggest a resignation. We don’t know the details of how the leak occurred, but his departure could either be directly linked to the breach, or because it was allowed to happen in the first place.

Read more on Geek.com

Hat-tip, DataLossDB.org

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