Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA

[NikKlaus]

Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools , Motherboard reported Thursday. From the report: "You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services," the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed by Motherboard. A source with access to the forums, some of which are locked from public view, provided Motherboard with screenshots of the messages. In those forum posts the hackers said they have taken the source code for FIFA 21, as well as code for its matchmaking server. The hackers also said they have obtained source code and tools for the Frostbite engine, which powers a number of EA games including Battlefield. Other stolen information includes proprietary EA frameworks and software development kits (SDKs), bundles of code that can make game development more streamlined. In all, the hackers say they have 780gb of data, and are advertising it for sale in various underground hacking forum posts viewed by Motherboard. EA confirmed to Motherboard that it had suffered a data breach and that the information listed by the hackers was the data that was stolen.

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[BALTAGY]

Topic moved to Information Technology section better

[dratice]

Looks like Battlefield 2042 will have exploits right from the get go. 

I guess with that much data leaked, some foreign company will just buy the source code and make replica copies of EA games.

[NikKlaus]

The group of hackers that stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts broke into the company in part by tricking an employee over Slack to provide a login token, Motherboard reported Friday. From the report: The group stole the source code for FIFA 21 and related matchmaking tools, as well as the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers games like Battlefield and other internal game development tools. In all, the hackers claim they have 780GB of data, and are advertising it for sale on various underground forums. EA previously confirmed the data impacted in the breach to Motherboard.

A representative for the hackers told Motherboard in an online chat that the process started by purchasing stolen cookies being sold online for $10, and using those to gain access to a Slack channel used by EA. In this case, the hackers were able to get into EA's Slack using the stolen cookie. "Once inside the chat we messaged a IT Support members we explain to them we lost our phone at a party last night," the representative said.

Crazy how simple is sometimes...

[teikiteiki]

so matchmaking on EA games will become so much worse. Apex still get hit hourly with DDOS in the highest skill level games.

[lucasyo]

damn matchmaking on these games is gonna suck indeed

[zone]

Same story with CD Project RED and Cyberpunk 2077