The company has already regained control and apologizes for the offensive and racist messages that have been published during the attack.
Someone has hacked some of the 2K social media accounts and used them to post racist comments . The violation of the security of the accounts has not been explained by the company, but the company has apologized to the users who may have been affected by the tone of the messages published by the unscrupulous.
The attack has occurred in Twitter and Facebook social media accounts associated with games such as Borderlands , Civilization Y WWE, some of the main brands of 2K Games. Therefore, it seems that the vulnerability has not been in a particular social network and there is speculation that the account of some company manager of the company has been obtained by brute force.
There has been no violation of user data, but there are offensive messages
The person (or people) who has accessed these accounts on social networks does not seem to have stolen data , but did take advantage of the circumstance to publish offensive messages against different groups, including racist messages, which we will not reproduce in this news.
There was also a change in corporate identity: the WWE account had changes in its logos , and photographs of another wrestling association, the AEW, were introduced and the fighter Chris Benoit, who died in 2007, played a leading role . It is not clear if his goal was to offend Benoit's memory or if he intended only to criticize the quality of the latest installment of this fighting saga.
Company public apologies
The company regained control of all these accounts shortly after , already during the Spanish dawn, as the attack took place during the US afternoon.
2K has apologized for what happened and regrets that "offensive material has been published that does not reflect the values of either 2K or our partners. We condemn those messages and apologize to anyone who is offended by those contents."
Date update on 2019-11-19. Date published on 2019-11-19. Category: Games Author: Oscar olg Fuente: vandal