Epic sues former employee for leaking Fortnite’s meteor event details
While we were all getting excited about the implications of Fortnite’s meteor event, someone at Epic Games was preparing legal action. Now the studio has filed its suit against Thomas Hannah, a former employee it claims breached a non-disclosure agreement.
According to the suit (thanks IGN), quality assurance tester Hannah had access to confidential information regarding future events. The suit claims he shared this information with Adam DiMarco, who leaked the data three weeks after Hannah’s last day at Epic.
These leaks – posted to a now-deleted reddit thread – stated that the meteor would hit Dusty Depot and that Fortnite would adopt superhero themes.
Hannah has filed a response to the suit, which denies many of Epic’s claims. Specifically, it states that while DiMarco questioned Hannah about the meteor event, he made deductions based on Hannah’s vague responses.
As with any legal matter, this could take months to sort out, but we’ll provide updates as they become available.
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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2018/06/25/epic-sues-former-employee-leaking-fortnites-meteor-event-details/
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NickPosted:
The guys over at Epic are some of the most money hungry, selfish, petty people I've ever seen
TOXICPosted:
Oh c'mon, who even cares, the event was shit anyways lol, then again he was out of line so got what he deserved smh.
RuiPosted:
Maze Sounds like a situation where the employee should be fired and leave it at that. Taking legal action against him is a bit absurd as he didn't hard the company in any way. Shame on epic for this one.
Technically it did? they released sensitive information about upcoming projects which is a breach of contract , which is the same it would be for any other company
TTGPosted:
If he would have not breached the contract then he wouldn't have been in this mess, more money for fortnite.
MazePosted:
Sounds like a situation where the employee should be fired and leave it at that. Taking legal action against him is a bit absurd as he didn't hard the company in any way. Shame on epic for this one.
CHUBBYninjaPosted:
What a stupid reason to sue. It absolutely did not jeopardized anything besides "the big reveal". It was only a map change and look now there is a leak every season. All they are doing is showing their employees what will happen if you leak. And this Hannah is the guinea pig.
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