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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:56AM (#15754866)
> If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games

I'm intrigued. Why would that be a higher-value target?

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by toyg on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:00AM (#15756393)
AAA games have budgets in the millions. Threatening full release would likely net you much more than a few hundred thousands, and without requiring any secondary attack.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by davb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:28AM (#15756580)
Are many (any?) AAA studios using private Github repos for development?
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