So, as new details about this episode came in, countless users of Epic Games Store They began to take security measures which included, first of all, changing their passwords or adding the famous double verification, at least to prevent it from being possible to fraudulently access their accounts in the future. But the harm, if it had happened piracyIt was already done.
What happened with the Epic Games Store hack?
Well, after the first information which spoke of a theft of approximately 190 GB of dataincluding sensitive user data, all of this now appears to have deflated when the supposed team of the Pirates responsible for the attack and who even went so far as to demand a ransom from the Americans under the threat of making all this information public. Or at least that’s what the first published statements read.
The fact is that the one known as the Mogilevich group does not seem to have pirate nothing, just like Epic initially announced by claiming that it had no evidence of a security breach or intrusion into its systems, so any resulting commotion would be more down to a campaign by the group himself. the Pirates than an event that has occurred. So who was telling the truth? (at least the store was never bad).
Now everything seems to be clarified and those allegedly responsible for the attack have left their version on some web pages to make it clear that indeed there was no piracy but that’s a reason for saying it. Can you imagine it?
A lure to track down other hackers?
This could be, more or less, the summary of what happened with this Mogilevich group, who seem to have orchestrated this whole campaign to try to defraud pirate groups that might be interested in this material that they never managed to fly. In other words, the aim was to use the piracy of Epic Games Store as a lure to attract other fish from whom, yes, they can extract money for information that did not exist.
As they said, the assumptions the Pirates They say that “you may be wondering why all this, and now I’m going to explain everything you need to know.” […] In reality, we are not a [grupo] Ransomware as a service, but professional scammers”, so they claimed to have stolen this data to get contacts to scam, on this occasion, groups who wanted to obtain sensitive information from Epic Games Store to, in turn, carry out attacks ransonware.
“We do not consider ourselves the Pirates, but criminal geniuses, if you can call us that. So, as the film says: “The game is between crooks.”
