A few days ago, there was panic on board for Epic Games and the users of its store, but ultimately, everything is fine. As they say: more fear than harm.
You’ve probably heard about it, but Epic Games was recently the victim of a hack. A group of hackers named Mogilevich claimed to be behind a massive hack targeting the firm. He still mentioned nearly 200 gigabytes of internal company data, which is significant. As a result, some people wondered if they were affected, and fears were expressed. In the end, it was just a false alarm.
The Epic Games hack was just a fraud
“ We quietly carried out an attack on Epic Games servers “. Here is the message that was posted by the hackers. Among the data recovered would have been emails, passwords, full names, payment information, in short, you get the idea, we were normally dealing with a really serious hack. However, shortly after, the publisher began an investigation, but it found no proof of this famous hack. Now we have confirmation that it was a big scam.
Mogilevich had set an appointment for March 4, 2024, the date of the ultimatum for the sale of the data. The amount had not been made public, and we understand why. According to a report by Cyber Daily, a representative of the hacker gang, Pongo, spoke out to say that everything was fake. To quote his own words, they are “professional fraudsters”. From what we understood, the plan was to obtain as much visibility as possible and then find a buyer. To do this, they took on the titan Epic Games.
The only thing to remember from this whole story is that your data is safe. Of course, that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. We all remember the affair with Insomniac Games and the employees who saw their personal information published on the Web. It was a real disaster. And keep in mind that this is only an example. Unfortunately, we are never safe from such a tragedy. For now, Epic Games users will be able to breathe, because they must have had a good scare.