The claim about the hack and theft of 200GB of Epic Games data is completely fake.
According to VGC, the ransomware hacker group that recently claimed to have attacked Epic Games has admitted it was just a hoax.
Last week, a group of hackers named Mogilevich posted information on a dark website specializing in data leaks, announcing a data breach that they said was committed against the company behind the game. Fortnite and the Epic Games Store. This group said they stole a lot of data including emails, passwords, full names, payment information, source code, and more, with a total size of up to 189GB.
However, unlike the infamous attack by hacker group Rhysida that targeted Insomniac Games in late 2023, Mogilevich did not provide any actual evidence that they managed to attack Epic’s systems.
Epic later issued a statement saying it was investigating but there was no evidence that these claims were true. Now, according to a report by Cyber Daily, Mogilevich has admitted that they do not have any Epic Games data and are running another scam
Accordingly, instead of trying to sell Epic’s internal data, Mogilevich said that they are trying to sell their fake ransomware infrastructure to other potential attackers. The group claims that instead of trying to sell illegally obtained data, they are trying to scam other cyber criminals out of money.
“Why confess all this when we could have run away?”, group member Pongo asked in a statement. “This was done to illustrate our phishing process. We do not consider ourselves hackers but criminal geniuses.”
Cyber Daily claims that these justifications may also not be true, so it is still unclear what this group is trying to achieve. However, Epic’s internal data was not compromised by this group