Industry Sympathizes With Insomniac Games After Big Data Leak
After a slew of Insomniac Games data hit the web, insiders and others in the gaming industry expressed deep sympathy for those affected.
The situation in which Insomniac Games finds itself is definitely not enviable. Hackers, who a week ago stole a lot of data on the company's employees and the projects they are working on, have fulfilled their threat by releasing all the illegally obtained files (there are 1.3 million of them in total)..
The largest amount, 1.67 TB of data, is related to Marvel's Wolverine, another game from the studio that has been in development for some time. In addition, the files include Insomniac Games' release plan for the next few years and various agreements between Sony and Marvel (via InsiderGaming).
According to game industry insiders, Insomniac Games fell victim to the biggest data leak in history. So it's not surprising that words of sympathy for the developers are flowing online, from all over the world.
"Leaking the personal information of game developers, of anyone really, is nasty no matter how you slice it. Sad to see this happen to Insomniac," wrote an industry insider Shinobi602.
"Shoutout to Insomniac Games, easily one of the best developers in gaming right now," reads the of KAMI, who in a subsequent message announced, that in solidarity with the developers, he will not share any information about the leak on his profile.
"Footage has been leaked of Insomniac's Wolverine after they were hacked last week. Pls don't spread that stuff," seconds Knoebel.
"I’d encourage people not to share the leaked data. It’s hacked materials that have been stolen from a studio by a ransomware group," urges The Verge journalist Tom Warren.
"Jesus... the situation with Insomniac Games is BAD," wrote Ben, an expert on Rockstar games. "I really feel sorry for the developers. 1 TB of data... this could be the worst hack in the history of the industry. Playable compilations, future games, etc. This is 1000 times worse than the leak of GTA VI."
Sympathy was also expressed by Cory Balrog, writer and director of God of War games, creator of Pyo and Radoslaw Grabowski, PR director at CD Projekt RED.
