This Watch Dogs 2 mission resembles the Sony Pictures hack

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 debuts on Tuesday on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. It is a work of fiction, but the game is full of references to real news about hackers and their targets. In the video below, the player hacks into a movie studio and steals all of its emails. It sure seems like the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

The game is set in San Francisco (the original title took place in a gloomy Chicago), and it has a lighter tone. It is a celebration of the hacktivism subculture rooted in the tech capital of the world. This mission requires you to go to the campus of a film studio that looks a little like Lucasfilm in the Presidio in San Francisco. But the storyline is more like a reference to the Sony Pictures attack, which revealed a trove of embarrassing emails. It is a superficial resemblance of the real story, as Sony Pictures is in Los Angeles and not San Francisco, but it brings home the point of how realistic the threat of cyberattacks are.