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Retraction: Gina Bruno Social Media Accounts Hacked
SBFord
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Retraction: Gina Bruno Social Media Accounts Hacked
Earlier today, we posted a story allegedly from ESO's Gina Bruno indicating that she was resigning from the company due to an assault. It came to our attention after the story was published that Gina's social media accounts were hacked. We appreciate both Gina and our own community for pointing out the forum post on the Elder Scrolls Online site clarifying that this was indeed a hacked post on Twitter.
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While it's certainly nothing to celebrate, I'm at least glad the original tweets were false.
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Perhaps something good can come from this: I'd love a series of articles about all the times Bill Murphy gets catfished.
Conspiracy Theory, person hacked their own account using a VPN, and TOR, then pretended to be someone else to gain media attention.
Then contacted other people or news forums to say that it was hacked...
Who knows
In that instance, has the victim really been damaged? Should we worry about requiring damages be proven when someone invades someone else's privacy to spout false statements from their personal accounts?
Some of you act as though game developers are gods. If this happened at my job we'd all have a good laugh about it and then move on.
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An attempt at least should be made to contact the person to get some confirmation be email the phone or whatever. I know I have made this all sound so easy and straight forward, it is a tricky decision but then that’s the can of worms social media has opened.
i don't like SJW that cry foul at every word someone says, how they think or look but their need to be a hard line on what ok and what is not. been able to access someone Private accounts an post something under their name is not a joke or harmless prank. as it only take one " joke " that went wrong then we argue why the hacker is absolve from blame since it was a " joke "
calling in swats? was a joke, saying their a bomb on a plane? a joke, saying you would kill someone who made you mad ? a joke...
so were do you draw the line? when you think it no longer funny? when know one got hurt so it ok? you can only tell society to grow up it's a joke so much before maybe we need to just stop the kids thinking the lands of the free absolve them of justice from " jokes ".
Even if true doubtful Bill could reach anyone high enough who would actually know nor do I believe said person would publically comment on it even to an esteemed journalist. (We love you Bill)
Assault cases are extremely personal and private and few agencies of any type will speak of them or publically name a victim.
Also he had no reason to believe the account was hacked so I'm not seeing much else which he could have done to verify.
Perhaps in the future such a story could be qualified with "have received an unconfirmed report from (whatever the info source was) that such and such happened, more at 11."
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Perhaps sticking to the site's mission of reporting on games would help it steer clear of social issues such as abuse or harrassment?
I don't mind if they include them, just opens the site up to extra criticism and more hostile debates which they will just want to close down.
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
If this happened at my job the person doing the hacking would, at the very least, be fired.
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"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Secondly, the news or post was an obvious fake. The post said she reported someone for calling her a 'higher up'. Last I checked that would be considered a compliment in america/english language and not sexual assault.
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1. MMORPG is currently my favorite gaming site. Why? Because unlike IGN, gamespot, RPS, etc they actually focus on GAMES and dont have needless mindless articles about social issues or he said/she said drama or SJW nonsense. Some advice to MMORPG so this doesn't happen again: Stick to what you are good at, games. There is already an infinite amount of websites jumping on every outraged offense or allegation someone online claims to have suffered. What benefit can come from you becoming just another one of these websites, say a Buzzfeed lite?
2. You want to know the super duper easy nearly 99% way to know if an allegation like sexual assault is serious or not? IF ITS ONLY REPORTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THEN BE SUSPICIOUS. Real assaults are reported to the police and the victims are not real eager to blast their trauma to the world. If the only allegation you see is from someone's twitter feed and they havent bothered to report it to the police then there is a good chance it's fake, exaggerated, or something else is going that is hiding the whole story. AKA fake Rolling Stone allegations which nearly ruined innocent guys lives, AKA fake Chad Hardwick allegations, AKA Aziz Ansari, etc. You see the common thread in all these fake allegations? They were all reported to the media or on social media, but apparently not to the real police. HMM wonder why that is? Because the real policy probably would've called BS on it right away..
Even though this case was different, of someone getting hacked, had MMORPG simply followed the advice above they wouldn't have ended up looking foolish in the first place. I highly urge MMORPG to stick to focus on gaming. We don't need another Polygon or Kotaku.... As you have now seen, it will just end up with you looking foolish.
Put the fucking Boogeyman away.