Activision Tried to Have Its Employees' Computers Hacked

[SomeLameStuff]

I'm in the army, and NONE of our operations have been named something like "Icebreaker". Yikes.

 

[dalek sec]

You know, I recently read some research findings that executives in mega-corps have an abnormal amount of sociopathy-like personality traits. I'm finding, between things like this and the recent interview with J.P. Morgan's CEO, very little reason to doubt that research.

Which kinda add's more fuel to my belief that socipath's should be locked up, I don't want freaks that like roaming the streets...

OT: It's Activision, I'm not really surprised that they would pull a stunt like this. Nice atmosphere of trusting one another you've have at your workplace guys.

 

[GrimGrimoire]

I love the idea of grown men creating names and operations for something like this. Did they have walkie-talkies from the toy shop and codenames as well?

 

[Sixcess]

Told not to "worry about the repercussions of [his] actions," Fenady tried to hire an outside company, InGuardians, to perform the task, but the company apparently couldn't get past the "legal hurdles" the operation presented.

I'm very disapointed that they had to outsource this. Do Activision really not have their own cybernetically enhanced agents on the payroll to handle this kind of thing?

I bet EA does. They put a lot more work into maintaining their image as an Evil Mega-Corpation.

 

[Dandark]

Activison.........
I swear it's like game companies are competing to see who can be the most hated. It's between EA, Ubisoft and Activision.

"Ubisoft had been falling behind but they tried to make a comeback with their Ghost recon marketing, however it wasn't enough to deal with the extra work put in by EA and Activision.

EA have been doing their best pissing people off however they can, but are they a match against Activision? Activison has made another play, making themselves look as evil as they can! I don't think Ubisoft can make a comeback here so how will EA respond?"

PLACE YOUR BETS!!!

 

[Jonny49]

Sounds like the worlds worst Inception fan-fiction ever.

 

[PBMcNair]

Icebreaker ? Hacking ? Complex plans to steal information ?

Sounds like somebody is Deus Ex fan.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Now that this is known it makes me wonder if West and Zampella will try to sue Activision or get the people who ordered it arrested. I imagine they are pretty mad about this.

My GUESS is, the computers in question belonged to their employer and acquiring the data on them would have been legal. I'm not sure on either count. But I would certainly understand them being mad.

You would guess differently than the company they tried to hire to accomplish the deed, then. My guess is that this will be fairly entertaining to follow, but the ending will be as disappointing as finding out it wasn't really that kind of Asian massage parlor after all.

 

[Dryk]

Now that this is known it makes me wonder if West and Zampella will try to sue Activision or get the people who ordered it arrested. I imagine they are pretty mad about this.

My GUESS is, the computers in question belonged to their employer and acquiring the data on them would have been legal. I'm not sure on either count. But I would certainly understand them being mad.

If it was legal they wouldn't've had to stage a phony fire drill to smuggle the data off, they could've just taken it

 

[Scrustle]

What the hell were they thinking? Sounds like they've been watching too many stupid movies or something.

 

[Shinsei-J]

One that sounds like the most awesome barbeque ever.
Two did anyone at any point say "I never asked for this"?
Three can activition dodge these charges by hiding in their doom fortress in the ocean?

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

I'm in the army, and NONE of our operations have been named something like "Icebreaker". Yikes.

Wait until you get deployed to the Artic or something. The moniker might get picked up then

 

[frobalt]

Is it just me, or does 'Operation Icebreaker' sound like a cool (See what I did there?) code-name for a secret freshers party for university students?

 

[sethisjimmy]

It's not exactly "hacking" when you have to stage a fake fire drill and fumigation to simply walk up to their workstations and browse through all their personal information. I mean, at no point are you actually trying to crack their passwords or hack into their email, you're just physically pushing them away from their desk so you can look at their info...

I like to imagine that they originally planned to "hack", but when they realized nobody actually had that skill, they chose the less graceful plan of shutting the entire building down so they can get two employees out of the way for five minutes.

 

[MetalGenocide]

.....And thus Activision kicks down the door, and arrogantly barges into the "worst company ever" awards....
.....Only to discover that, EA already claimed it.....
But the maniacal rant that ensued was caught on camera...right?

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

Exec's at Activision heard EA got an award for being evil and decided to 1-up them?

I'm not sure if it's funny or not that it makes a degree of sense....

 

[Scars Unseen]

It's not exactly "hacking" when you have to stage a fake fire drill and fumigation to simply walk up to their workstations and browse through all their personal information. I mean, at no point are you actually trying to crack their passwords or hack into their email, you're just physically pushing them away from their desk so you can look at their info...

I like to imagine that they originally planned to "hack", but when they realized nobody actually had that skill, they chose the less graceful plan of shutting the entire building down so they can get two employees out of the way for five minutes.

Two words: Social Engineering (although faking a fire drill in your own building is kind of easy mode social engineering)

 

[Metalrocks]

wow. looks like the greedy companies try to be worse then the other company. well, ?A already created a spyware (origin), why not activision.

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

Now that this is known it makes me wonder if West and Zampella will try to sue Activision or get the people who ordered it arrested. I imagine they are pretty mad about this.

My GUESS is, the computers in question belonged to their employer and acquiring the data on them would have been legal. I'm not sure on either count. But I would certainly understand them being mad.

If it was legal they wouldn't've had to stage a phony fire drill to smuggle the data off, they could've just taken it

If they were trying to discourage bad behavior, they might go that route. If, on the other hand, they were trying to uncover evidence of bad behavior or even encourage it, they may not have wished West and Zampella to know they were targets.