Hello Games’ Twitter account posted that “No Man’s Sky was a mistake”, with the developer then explaining the social media post in a number of contradicting ways.
The initial tweet was posted at 5:48 am PST on 28 October:
When reached for comment by gaming outlets, Hello Games’ story seemed to evolve.
Kotaku reported that the tweet was a result of hacking, with fradulent users gaining access of the account after Sean Murray logged into LinkedIn without two-factor authentication.
Hello Games’ Sean Murray has taken to Twitter to confirm this is indeed the case.
If anything was a mistake, it was using Linked In without 2FA.
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) October 28, 2016
Confusing matters are emails from alleged Hello Games representative — now also believed to be compromised accounts — which said the tweet was by ” a disgrunted employee”. A statement to that affect was received by both Forbes and Mashable.
Polygon received an email from an account associated with Murray himself, saying, “the tweet is from me, but somebody from the team took it down … We have not been coping well.”
At any rate, the compromised account — or is that accounts — seem to be back under control of Hello Games. The initial tweet has been removed.
No Man’s Sky is available on Windows PC and PS4. We reviewed it here.
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