EngineOwning.to has had bad blood with Activision for a while over Call of duty cheats, but it seems like they’re not going to let up. They called Activision out for a data hack and accused the company of not telling their employees about it.
EngineOwning.to the notorious seller of cheat software used in Call of Duty games. Activision recently sued them and won $3 million, but the cheat engine creators are not letting up.
It feels weird to see hackers get security promised to them in the same tweet that tells us Activision’s workforce’s data may have been breached. However, that’s exactly what happened.
First found by FalconFeedsio , Bleeping Computer wrote an article on FalconFeedisio’s tweet showing the data breach.
#ACTIVISION AZURE database has been added to the hacker's forum. The user claims that the database contains 19,444 unique records of employee information which was dumped on December 5th, 2022. #DarkWeb #cyberrisk #DataBreach #DeepWeb pic.twitter.com/UHEVlo2dSa
Activision employees’ full names, phone numbers, job titles, addresses, and email addresses are among the 19,444 unique records leaked by hackers . A free text file containing the dump was free to all forum members.
When EngineOwning.to found out about this, they tweeted the article (found by Dexerto ) and accused Activision of trying to hide it from their staff. To quote EngineOwning.to’s tweet:
“Activision did not notify their employees of a serious data breach and does not consider their data as sensitive…”
They also told their followers that their customer’s data is safe. They also promised to publish everything they do to keep that data safe.
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Then they called attention to Activision themselves.
Activision tweeted about the Data Hiest Public Event (poor timing) and Engineowning.to responded to the tweet immediately. They asked if the Data Heist laptops also contained employee information. To quote them:
“Do the Data Heist laptops that you have to find and steal contain Activision employee information?”
Whether the data breach contained the employees’ true information is unknown, but it’s hard to ignore this kind of privacy concern. Despite Activision winning the lawsuit , Engineowning.to continues to publicly declare to Activision and their customers that the cheat engines are alive and well.
What do you think? Is Engineowning.to taking things too far? Is the breach even real? Is Activision required to inform the public if the breach is real? Let us know in the comments below!
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