So while new details of that episode arrived, countless users of Epic Games Store They began to take security measures that included, first of all, changing their passwords or adding the famous double verification, at least to prevent it from being possible to access their accounts fraudulently in the future. But the evil, if that had occurred hackingIt was already done.
What happened with the Epic Games Store hack?
Well, after the first information that spoke of a robbery of about 190 GB of dataincluding sensitive user data, now all that seems to have deflated when the supposed team of hackers responsible for the attack and who even went so far as to ask the Americans for a ransom under threat of making all that information public. Or at least, that’s what the first statements that were issued read.
The fact is that the one known as the Mogilevich group does not seem to have hacked nothing, just like epic announced at first by stating that it had no evidence that there had been a security breach or an intrusion into its systems, so all the commotion that has arisen would be more due to a campaign by the group itself. hackers than to an event that had occurred. So who was telling the truth? (at least the store was never bad).
Now, everything seems to be clarified and those supposedly responsible for the attack have left their version on some web pages to make it clear that, indeed, there has been no hacking but it is a reason for having said it. Can you imagine it?
A decoy to hunt down other hackers?
That could be, more or less, the summary of what has happened with this Mogilevich group, which seems to have orchestrated this entire campaign to try to defraud groups of pirates who might be interested in that material that they never managed to steal. That is, the purpose was to use the hacking 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 have stated, the assumptions hackers They say that “you might 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 pretended to have stolen that data to get contacts to scam, on this occasion, groups that wanted to obtain sensitive information from Epic Games Store to, in turn, carry out attacks of ransonware.
“We do not consider ourselves hackers, but criminal geniuses, if we can be called that. So as the movie said, “The game is among crooks.”
