No Man's Sky was a mistake? Hello Games' Twitter Account Got Hacked!
It is without a doubt that No Man's Sky is one of the anticipated games since its first preview in 2014 E3 conference. It was last weekend where Hello Games, the studio behind No Man's Sky tweeted that "No Man's Sky was a mistake."
The tweet got deleted afterward and set the Twitter account to private for a short time before opening it to the public again. Suspicions of hacking to emails coming from Hello Games founder, Sean Murray, making speculations that the alleged tweet came from the founder.
It is said that the tweet came from a "disgruntled employee" according to Forbes and Mashable, who each received emails about it. Other websites, such as Polygon, reported that they received an email from the founder itself, apologizing for failing to deliver for "No Man's Sky" and taking responsibility for the controversial tweet.
Murray broke his Twitter silence, tweeting "Server hacked. We're bringing Mr. Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker." and a follow-up "If anything was a mistake, it was using Linked In without 2FA." Turns out that the original tweet came from Murray's Linked In account, with the implication that Linked In's network service may be at fault for the controversial breach.
Murray then asked the studio's Twitter account if they are still hacked. Hello Games' Twitter account responded that they're not hacked anymore, putting an end to the issue.
No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed by Hello Games and released in August 2016. The game earned an overwhelming negative feedback due to multiple delays. It built up a massive hype for people only to fail because many of the anticipated features featured in E3 didn't make it to the final build. Many people feel that the game was rushed out into the market unfinished.
