The fact that they leaked people's data doesn't mean that you can just invent stuff. Companies managed to leak data just fine way before AI was a thing.

At least they've been as upfront as possible and given the less savvy an idea of what to be wary of

Sucks that it happened, but still.

it was eight warehouses - and warehousing/ middle mile logistics is very fraught with give and take

we don't know what happened but freightwaves is reporting it was at the warehouse level so I'm guessing it was at the consolidation/LTL stage - meaning it was warehousing that has recieved the inventory and is working out how and where to get it to the address

knowing they run a proprietary blend of cargowise freight tech it's likely the hackers got access to a regional managers account, probably pretty low on the totem pole

As much as i enjoy Valves overall practices, this is nothing they should be glorified for.

Here in the EU it is obligatory to inform your customers about incidents like this.

So it's not that they do this out of the goodness of their hearts.

I mean they do this in the USA too and we are a shit hole country apparently.

You bet your ass they would’ve done this Because their first fucking sentence is to blame a European company for it. They would have absolutely sent that email no matter what in this case. They did Not do it out of the goodness of their heart regardless, because they took the opportunity to immediately place the blame, where it belongs, on another company. They would have sent this email out, no matter what. There are no laws in Europe that made it so this happened.

Maybe the company that’s at fault letting you know is doing that because they are afraid of legal implications. But valve is going to tell you that it’s some other asshole‘s fault no matter who told them they had to or not.

Someone must have clicked a link and it wasn't a training email. Then entered their information.