Within the early hours of this morning, a ransomware group claimed to have hacked into Epic Video games, taking private knowledge, comparable to names, cost particulars, and passwords. Nonetheless, the Fortnite and Unreal studio has since responded to issues that anybody has gained entry to recordsdata, saying it’s investigating however hasn’t discovered any proof thus far.

In keeping with the Australian web site Cyber Every day, a bunch calling itself the Mogilevich gang is claiming to have gotten maintain of round 189GB of non-public info from Epic. A number of the knowledge stated to have been stolen embody “e mail, passwords, full identify, cost info, supply code and lots of different knowledge.”

The group is asking somebody who works for the corporate to “purchase the info.” Whereas no value has been talked about, a deadline of March 4 was given, although there was no clue about what would occur if the demand for cash wasn’t met by this date.

There’s zero proof proper now that the ransomware claims from Mogilevich are reliable. Mogilevich has not contacted Epic or offered any proof of the veracity of allegations.

— Epic Video games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) February 28, 2024

In an announcement to Eurogamer just a few hours in the past (plus the above tweet), Epic Video games has stated it’s shifting quick to research these claims.

Nonetheless, Epic says there may be “zero proof proper now that the ransomware claims from Mogilevich are reliable.” The message goes on to say the studio started investigating “inside minutes” of seeing the “screenshot of a darkweb webpage in a Tweet from a 3rd occasion.”

A current publish on Twitter from Editor-in-Chief of Bleeping Pc Lawrence Abrams says the group is on the lookout for $15K for the allegedly hacked knowledge. Nonetheless, till Mogilevich contacts Epic, this might nicely be nothing greater than an empty risk. We’ll be keeping track of this story, although.