EPIC FAIL
‘I knew it was a scam’ Fortnite players are relieved to find that their data is safe
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FORTNITE players and users of the Epic Games Store recently received threats that their personal and payment data had been compromised.
Posting on the dark web, a group were reportedly calling for $15k (£12k) in exchange for a data packet which they claimed contained personal data and source code stolen from Epic Games.
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Epic Games is the developer of Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular games, and has an online storefront that gives away free games every week.
This means that it has a lot of players’ payment details on file, so a number of people were worried by the claims.
In response to the claims Epic Games wrote: "[The group] has not contacted Epic or provided any proof of the veracity of these allegations.”
Epic Games looked into the matter but could not find any evidence that a data breach had even taken place.
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March 4 was the deadline after which the group said it would release all of the data from Epic Games.
Instead, the group released a statement admitting that they had never stolen any data, and that the whole operation was a scam.
As reported by , the group would claim to steal large amounts of data and sell them to the highest bidder.
While no data had been stolen to sell, people wishing to own the illicit data had supposedly paid large sums of money to the group.
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They state that the group didn’t want infamy for the scam but came clean in order to “illustrate the process of their scam.”
Again no evidence has been given that the group even managed to find buyers for their fake data, so this ‘confession’ could be a lie as well.
The most important information to come out of this ‘confession’ is that Epic Games was never hacked, and that players’ data is safe.
If you want to read more about the story, check out what Epic Games said about the fake hack.
Written by Georgina Young on behalf of .
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