Cyber Daily reports on an alleged hacker attack on the Unreal Engine and “Fortnite” makers at Epic Games. According to its own information, the ransomware group “Mogilevich” claims to have stolen almost 190 gigabytes of data. Information on which those responsible at Epic Games have now also commented.
Update: As it has now emerged, the alleged hack was a fraud of a completely different kind. The ransomware attack was faked.
Instead of Epic Games' data, the promised data set contained a message: “In reality, we are not ransomware-as-a-service, but professional scammers.”
The Mogilevich group reported furtherhow she was able to allegedly sell her home-grown ransomware infrastructure to eight “hackers” and even double the price of access at the last minute.
In the end, scammers apparently ripped each other off.
Original message from February 28, 2024: Reported today Cyber Daily about an alleged hacker attack on Epic Games. As the ransomware group “Mogilevich” stated, it wants to have hacked Epic Games and stolen 189 gigabytes of data.
On its darknet leak website, the group reported that the stolen data included “email addresses, passwords, full names, payment information, source codes and many other files.” “Mogilevich” further stated that the corresponding data will be offered for sale until March 4, 2024.
Another wording for an attempt at blackmail to get Epic Games to pay an unspecified sum. However, this is unlikely to happen.
As Epic Games confirmed in an official statement, there is no concrete evidence that hackers were able to gain illegal access to the company's servers or systems.
Epic Games' statement in full
“We are investigating. But there is currently no evidence that these claims are legitimate. Mogilevich has not contacted Epic or provided any evidence of the veracity of these allegations.”
“When we saw these claims, which were a screenshot of a dark web site in a tweet from a third party, we began investigating within minutes and contacted Mogilevich to request evidence,” Epic Games said.
The company states: “Mogilevich did not respond. The closest we've seen in response is this tweet in which they supposedly demand $15,000 and 'proof of funds' to hand over the data in question.”
According to experts, “Mogilevich” is a relatively young hacker group that recently drew attention with a hack of the Nissan subsidiary Infiniti USA. The fact that a similarly successful attack was successful in the case of Epic Games is currently in doubt due to the statement from the Unreal Engine makers.
The latest high-profile victim of the video game industry to fall victim to a hacker attack is Insomniac Games. Since the studio behind successful titles such as “Marvel's Spider-Man” or “Ratchet & Clank” did not respond to the blackmail attempts, the hackers leaked more than 1.3 million internal documents.
Including roadmaps for planned projects, sales figures for games and more.
Quelle: Videogames Chronicle
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