Activision confirmed the leakage of data, during which in December 2022, hackers gained access to the internal systems of the company, deceiving the employee with the help of a fisch SMS message (soming). The company added that the source code of the games or the data of the players are not affected.
on December 4, 2022, our IB team quickly responded to an attempt by an SMS-violet and eliminated it. After a thorough investigation, we determined that there was no access to the confidential data of employees, game code or players, ”the company representative said.
Nevertheless, the Safety Research Group Vx-underground reported that the attacker “kidnapped confidential working documents” Together with the schedule of the release of content until November 17, 2023.
Screenshots that the researchers shared, show that on December 2, hackers gained access to the Slack employee Activision and tried to force other workers to cross the harmful links.