The massive Xbox leak is not the fault of the FTC - It was Microsoft who made a mistake

We are experiencing an information earthquake. The legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the purchase of Activision Blizzard has required the analysis of confidential Xbox documents, emails and reports; a fairly common practice in legal cases. This information almost never leaves the court as it is sensitive and classified data, but an error has caused the massive leak of many Redmond plans to grow in the video game sector. How has this happened? Well, after many rumors and theories, it turns out that It was Microsoft itself who was wrong when sharing these files during litigation.

[Jin_Sakai]

“Microsoft's AI research team accidentally exposed a large cache of private data on the software development platform GitHub, according to new research from a cybersecurity firm“

Microsoft always screwing up somehow. Good to see all this BS leak though.

[-Foxtrot]

You know what I find funny, something no one has even mentioned yet…how the actual f*** did Microsoft get approved by the FTC when the documents that have leaked show Microsoft as super power hungry

Who approves something when they are talking about things like WB, Valve and especially Nintendo as their end goal.

It’s insane. Like if Microsoft was hiding all this fine but when the FTC and god knows who else in other countries know this by these documents why approve it like it was nothing.

It just seems super off to me.

[Soulsborne]

Money, as per usual.

[Futureshark]

And now the court of public opinion shall make their judgement.....

Phil Spencer & co are a bunch of shysters.

[lelo2play]

The intern is to blame...

[TheKingKratos]

Is that all ?!

What do you think about Phil own words ?! ...is he still good guy to you guys after all this shit ?!

[lelo2play]

@TheKingKratos

So much hate! Did Phil touch you?

I was being sarcastic about the intern, but users on N4G are too (**Insert word here**) to understand it.

[Rocketisleague]

This happens more often than you would think. Its actually very easy to fknup pushing stuff to public github without knowing what you're doing.

We once had juniors pushing their password to public github as we were migrating from RTC to github. Security team was riled up like nothing else.

Funny to see people blame a whole company. Its normally a mess up of a few individuals pr processes. The larger the company the more.likely things squeeze through the cracks.

Anyone with development experience will know what I'm talking about. The amount of crazy Security flaws I've seen this year alone makes me wonder how the world hasn't fallen apart yet

[VariantAEC]

@Rocketisleague
You'd think MS would figure out how their own platforms work by now?

Github is owned by MS.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Microsoft is messing up somehow imo.

[Jin_Sakai]

Thanks for stating the obvious.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Np 😊

[darthv72]

https://twitter.com/tomwarr...

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

"this is the biggest Xbox leak in history. Bigger than the Fortaleza leak that detailed the Xbox One, simply because this includes Microsoft’s hardware and platform strategy, unredacted internal communications, and more. You don’t usually see this much leak"

Sheesh...

[italiangamer]

Karma is a bitch

[isarai]

Well keep em coming, watching Phil damage control at the level of a toddler is hilarious 😂

[cammers1995]

He's gonna act like a toddler when the consequences hit Microsoft so hard they fire phil.

[jznrpg]

Couldn’t happen to better people ….

[Asplundh]

Microsoft can't be too happy with the Xbox division right now, mishandling documents seems like a good reason to give Phil his walking papers.

[S2Killinit]

Screw MS. These SOBs are the worst thing to happen to gaming.

[Petebloodyonion]

Phil Spencer's statement to all employes proove the article when he mention that MS must do better in term of protecting secrets.

[raWfodog]

I’m laughing at how greatly they undervalued and underestimated Baldur’s Gate 3 ($5 million).

[gleepot]

oopsies

[cammers1995]

It was probably loser bro fatso Phil Spencer high on energy drinks and caffeine pills accidently hit the wrong button.