they are in no way associated with Sony and Naughty Dog (supplemented)

May 1: A couple of days ago, a big scandal erupted over the leak of video materials on The Last of Us Part II. This is a very difficult topic to talk about because, in the “merged” commercials, Naughty Dog fans saw very controversial plot moves. You yourself know what kind of things to discuss and the imposition of a narrowly targeted agenda we will not discuss now. We only let you know that Sony has already found the perpetrators of the leak.

Most surprisingly, these people are in no way affiliated with Sony and Naughty Dog. That is, they do not work there – neither in the office nor on the “remote”. At the moment, Sony is refusing to give any additional comments about exactly who the identified attackers are. Neil Drackmann from Naughty Dog once again advised to wait for the release of The Last of Us Part II and in every way to avoid spoilers.

The game should go on sale on June 19 exclusively on the PlayStation 4.

Supplement May 3: The notorious Jason Schreyer, who left Kotaku some time ago and took a short vacation before moving to Bloomberg, still continues to conduct journalistic investigations. According to him , based on insider information, a major data leak on The Last of Us Part II occurred as a result of exploit vulnerabilities in the update for one of the old Naughty Dog games, as a result of which they gained access to the studio’s servers, where the early build was stored The Last of Us Part II.

This version is also confirmed by the QA tester under the nickname PixelButts, explaining that every Naughty Dog game has a so-called final patch with the Amazon AWS key, through which it is technically possible to access the studio’s servers. According to PixelButts, hackers found out about this vulnerability back in January, and a month later, developers from Naughty Dog were also aware of it, who began to quickly fix it. Apparently, the attackers uploaded the data at the beginning of the year, but they only got to the Network quite recently. Why not explained.