Update at 9.05pm – After an investigation, Epic released a statement explaining that it has not yet found evidence of the hacker attack claimed by the Mogilevich ransomware group. The alleged perpetrators have not yet contacted Epic and are not responding to the company's requests.
Problems for Epic Games: The ransomware group Mogilevich claims to have carried out a hacker attack against the company by stealing almost 200GB of data (189GB to be exact) and with the intention of putting them all on sale immediately.
The information that Mogilevich is said to have is of various kinds and sensitive: passwords, email addresses, names, source codes, payment systems and other elements are in fact contained among the just under 200GB stolen by the group. Mogilevich also sent a ultimatum to Epic Games, demanding payment of a ransom no later than March 4th. However, it was not specified how much the ransom requested was and what the consequences will be if the house of Fortnite did not want to satisfy their demands.
According to what was revealed by Cyber DailyMogilevich is a rather new ransomware reality and which, before the blow against Epic Games, carried out three other attacks on different realities: the first of these a week ago was Nissanspecifically the subsidiary Infiniti USA. It now remains to be understood how Epic Games intends to act towards the group, which in any case for the moment has not shown any concrete evidence of the theft having occurred.
In recent months, the similar story of Insomniac Games, which was the victim of a serious data theft, has been highly discussed, with the group Rhysida who then disseminated the material stolen from the company online under the PlayStation Studios.