Mario Wonder, Mario Party, both latest Zelda's, HAL, GameFreak, Insomniac, and several others had major leaks within the last year and a half. I feel like this has been ramping up in frequency and the scale of stuff getting put out to the public has been nuts. What on Earth is going?
The quantity of leaks jumped tremendously starting in 2020, when the world was forced to switch to remote work for the next two years. Operational security procedures up to that point were primarily focused on maintaining security around workers spending the majority of their time working at the office in person. They did not have sufficient procedures in place to guard against a huge amount of internal data being sent back and forth over the internet. The result is, naturally, big leaks.
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