Nintendo takes Discord to court and Minecraft servers with secret documents
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Secret US documents have landed on a Minecraft Discord server. The data, released by a previously unknown user, contains highly sensitive information about Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and is classified as “top secret”. In addition to statistics on the number of deaths and recorded communications with US allies, details about Ukrainian air defense systems, offensive potential and information about the types of weapons used by the defense forces were also disclosed.
But how did it even come to the point that such information ended up on a Minecraft server? Experts assume that the secret documents were leaked during a discussion in the forum. They were apparently intended to serve as an argument to end jokes about the war in Ukraine and prove the authenticity of what happened. The other users did not seem to have been aware of what was happening right in front of their noses – until the Ministry of Defense became aware of the documents.
And again trouble about Discord: The platform is subpoenaed. Nintendo is taking Discord to court and has good reasons for doing so. In February, a massive 204-page artbook for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was leaked on Discord. Now the social media platform is to reveal who disclosed the data.
The subpoena was filed on April 4. With this, Nintendo is trying to get Discord to “identify the identity, including name(s), address(es), phone number(s), and email address(es) of user Julien#2743, responsible for posting infringing content is responsible”, to disclose.
The Ukraine war, interest rate hikes and banking and economic crises – all of this hardly seems to have a negative impact on the Dax. This is because its calculation also includes dividends and their reinvestments. The situation is different with the “real” Dax. Because this is a pure price index that ignores the distributions of the corporations and reflects the price changes of the 40 most important German shares.
For comparison: since the beginning of 2000, the Dax – including its dividends – has more than doubled its price from almost 7,000 to currently around 15,700 points. The pure price index, on the other hand, only recorded an increase of around five percent. As the Handelsblatt has calculated, the price development of the “true” Dax corresponds to an annual average interest rate of 0.2 percent. Investors would have been better off with the low-interest but solid government bonds.
Elon Musk versus Substack – the Twitter dispute is entering a new round: Substack recently announced that it would launch the new service Notes, which could compete with Twitter. Of course, that doesn’t suit you at all: Elon Musk. As a consequence, the Twitter boss blocked the ability to like or retweet posts containing the term “substack”. Links to the blog platform are also not available. Musk justified his action by saying Substack was reportedly trying to “download a large portion of the Twitter database to launch his Twitter clone.” Of course he can’t prove it.
Matt Taibbi, author of the Twitter Files and blogger on Substack, complained that he can no longer promote his articles on Twitter. Musk then claimed that Taibbi was an ex-Substack employee and berated him. The Substack bosses rejected Musk’s allegations and also denied that Taibbi was their employee. In a chat with another Twitter Files contributor named Michael Shellenberger, Musk then published an excerpt of his private conversation with Taibbi. But he deleted the tweet. Tabibi then did what I’m sure anyone else would have done after this altercation with Musk: He switched to Substack Notes.
An attack on privacy – and all without programming skills? This is possible with doxing. During the cyber attack, personal information – including home address and contact details, workplace information and social security numbers – is collected from various online sources and then published online without the victim’s permission. All this is done by so-called doxers. The term is derived from the English “Dropping Dox” – where “Dox” colloquially stands for “docs”, i.e. documents.
Cybercriminals don’t even need hacking skills to get hold of the data. A lot of data is freely accessible in user profiles on various social networks, on blogs or in databases and can be viewed by everyone. The information gathered is then shared with a wide audience via fake accounts, mostly on social networks.
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