Not deleting a comment like this says a lot about the project, none of which is good. The moderator replied, the commenter replied, yet the comment remains.
>should take a qualified candidate 20 minutes to finish beginning to end (as in, including syncing the project, setting up their editor, exploring the problem, googling around about things, trying it out and then following up with the email to HR
So about six minutes for the problem itself, then?
>However, this particular case was pretty interesting, given that it was on an older drive with MLC NAND that has since disappeared from the market.
Much less surprised after reading this; MLC is quite durable. Not as much as SLC, but still much better than TLC or, heaven forbid, QLC flash (which is trash).
UPDATED Following notes from several readers, we followed up directly with VRChat on Thursday at 1945 GMT and they told us that the Maine Attorney General's office apparently posted a fake breach report.
According to an email from VRChat's head of community, Charles Tupper, "VRChat did not submit this Notice of Data Incident, and the employee/email cited does not exist. We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed."
In an effort to get to the bottom of this, The Register dialed the phone number on the report as well, but it connected to a line that is not in service. We also tried emailing the address on the report and got no reply. We could find no record of a Scott Caruso affiliated with VRChat.
We apologize for the error, but generally speaking, government data breach reports are considered reliable. The fakers apparently even created a false notice that VRChat ostensibly sent to customers!
If anybody knows who filed this apparently fake report and why, get in touch through our contact page, or through our secure tipline.