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Epic Games hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info

by kuter on 2/28/24, 5:40 PM with 19 comments

  • by s_dev on 2/28/24, 6:12 PM

    I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but the Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs has confirmed they've seen no evidence of a breach. Not sure how common it is but perhaps just a bluff to get some Bitcoin?

  • by j45 on 2/28/24, 6:15 PM

    Wow.

    It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.

  • by 1970-01-01 on 2/28/24, 6:34 PM

    Login and payment info tells me this hack is not likely. Maybe a few accounts were sprayed.

  • by croes on 3/4/24, 2:30 AM

  • by acheron on 2/28/24, 6:33 PM

    Uh oh, do they have my payment info from when I bought Castle of the Winds?

  • by mvdtnz on 2/28/24, 6:20 PM

    This website keeps making the claim that it's a ransomware attack, but neither the original tweet nor Epic's response seem to back that up. Looks like a run of the mill data exfiltration to me.

    Also this website has the most insane cookie consent flow I've seen yet. Shameful.