Hackers stage Epic hack
A group announced earlier this week that they had successfully breached Epic Games and taken 189GB of data, including user information. They are now retracting their statements, claiming that they staged the whole event to deceive real hackers.
The group, which goes by the online handle Mogilevich, claims to have accomplished this by promising to sell potential hackers the technology needed to get access to Epic Games. Naturally, the technology and data they sent on—assuming they sent any—would be worthless if the attack had never occurred. According to Mogilevich, it sold this information to eight customers without demonstrating its ability to breach an organization such as Epic.
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Only a few days have passed since the “hack” was originally made public. After allegedly stealing “emails, passwords, full names, payment information, source code” from its assault on Epic, Mogilevich appeared to be attempting to ransom the data back to the business.
However, Mogilevich has since altered the narrative entirely. Since it’s possible that the gang pulled off a hack and this was all misdirection, we cannot confirm whether or not their account of events is accurate. It does, however, correspond with Epic’s statement that there was “ze
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