Epic Games, the developer and publisher of insanely popular battle royale shooter, Fortnite, is suing one of its ex employees for allegedly leaking elements of the game that were planned for upcoming updates. It specifically cites an example of a third-party revealing where the meteor would land at the end of the competitive season three, claiming that the employee was the one who told them where it would hit.
Thomas Hannah was a contracted quality assurance (read: tester) at Epic between December and April. He was involved in testing Fortnite and had access to a number of secretive elements about the game as it would change in the months to come. However, he was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), meaning that he was legally bound to not reveal anything he learned while at the company.
Epic alleges that he did.
Aas Polygon explains, the suit cites a since-deleted Reddit thread containing information which Epic believes came from a leak made by Hannah to the person behind the post. In his defence, Hannah hasn't denied being in communication with the person behind the Reddit post, but said that the conversations were "casual" and that he had no plans to share any information with a wider audience. He claims that the third-party posted the information of their own volition.
That would still be in violation of the NDA though, which doesn't give Hannah much of a leg to stand on when it comes to his defence proper.
