Activision has acknowledged that a data breach occurred in early December 2022 due to hackers deceiving an employee with an SMS phishing text to access the company’s internal systems.
According to the video game developer, neither player information nor the game’s source code was affected by the event.
“Our information security team rapidly identified and stopped an SMS phishing attempt on December 4, 2022. We conducted a thorough investigation and found no player data, game code, or sensitive employee data had been obtained, “A company representative stated.
The threat actor “exfiltrated important workplace papers,” according to security research firm vx-underground, along with the content release schedule through November 17, 2023.
According to screenshots provided by the researchers, hackers accessed one Activision employee’s Slack account on December 2 and attempted to lure other staff members into clicking dangerous links.
According to the video game newspaper “Insider Gaming,” the cache of employee information includes real names, email accounts, phone numbers, salaries, workplaces, and other information.
The magazine further asserts that the hacked worker was from the human resources division and had access to a wide range of private employee information.
Future content packages for the “Call of Duty Modern Warfare II” series are among the game titles-related information disclosed by this leak that has been listed by “Insider-Gaming.”
Since the breach happened in December 2022, some of the information Activision was able to collect may need to be updated right now.
The incident did not impact the development environment. Although there is no access to the exposed data, we understood that the game information released online was based on marketing materials.
