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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Forbes

Sharing Rockstar emails on Discord was ‘egregious breach’ of policy – tribunal

Some 34 people are believed to have been dismissed from Rockstar in October last year across the UK and Canada (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

A former Rockstar Games employee committed an “egregious breach” of company policy when they posted emails from management in a Discord channel, a tribunal has heard.

A lawyer representing the games company said it took a “strict line” on information security, and that managers would have “gone ballistic” if the possibility of sharing the emails on the platform had been suggested to them.

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