Disney, Microsoft, and Other Major Companies Affected by Massive Source Code Leak

By Alicia Hope for CPO Magazine
Friday, August 7, 2020

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Although some of the source code may be outdated, releasing the logic of various devices allows hackers to understand the low-level operations of such devices. Such knowledge is crucial in finding vulnerabilities of the current products whose earlier version were affected by the source code leak.

However, not every expert believes the source code leak was of any consequence. Ilia Kolochenko, Founder & CEO of web security company ImmuniWeb, says unmaintained source code becomes worthless after very few iterations.

“From a technical standpoint, these leaks are not that dramatic. Most of the source code is worthless unless you have other pieces of technology and, importantly, people to make complicated systems work properly. Moreover, the source code rapidly depreciates without daily support and improvement. Thus, unscrupulous competitors will unlikely to get much value unless they are seeking a very specific piece of software. Furthermore, unlawful usage of the source code is quite easily provable and may trigger multi-million lawsuits.” Read Full Article