Epic Games reportedly hacked by a ransomware gang, nearly 200GB of Internal Data stolen

From GameWatcher: "Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, has reportedly been hacked, resulting in the theft of nearly 200 gigabytes of internal data.

That is according to ransomware group Mogilevich, who claims to have “quietly attacked Epic Games’ servers”."

[OtterX]

I have several hundred games on the Epic Store. I've bought zero. I've played maybe 10 or less of them. I'm not worried. *Back to Steam*

[1nsomniac]

Not sure what logic is supposed to be backed up by this argument. Whether the hack is true or not it’s likely they’ve got all the same information whether you’ve ever bought games or even whether you play them or not. As with the majority of these industry hacks. Going back to Steam literally makes absolutely zero difference to the situation… and it’s not even like Steam has never been hacked either…. I don’t get it.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

So you have an account then? What games you own hardly has anything to do with it. User logins and financials were exposed. Login credentials from one account can easily be linked to another.

[OtterX]

I never gave them my credit card number, and my account has 2FA anyways.

Just saying, this doesn't surprise me with Epic. But yea, sorry for those of you who have spent money there, hope your CC's are safe. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Just, not surprised, that's all.

[Sonic1881]

I bought a few games on the Epic Store as well, but I'm still not worried about it.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Hot take I want jackrabbit 3d to come out now from epic since they can publish games Like that.

[CrimsonWing69]

Oh great… so glad I have an account with them…

[Furesis]

Alright game reveal time

[SDuck]

sh*t I do have RDR2 there since it was limited to Epic on release

[LordoftheCritics]

RIP

I'm running out of passwords

[thecodingart]

I’m ok with this

[jznrpg]

Never use your debit card online you could have major issues trying to get your money back. But most, if not all credit cards (the ones I have anyways) have fraud prevention/protection where you don’t get charged for it.

I’ve had some big fraudulent charges before but they call me and ask if I made them and that’s it they take it off and send me a new card.

Try to change your passwords often as possible. But stuff like this can happen to any company not much you can do besides use prepaid cards or at least use a credit card that has fraud protection.