The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of the data, with a deadline of 4th March.
Epic, however, say that they’ve yet to see any proof that a ransomware attack has taken place. “We are investigating but there is currently zero evidence that these claims are legitimate,” a spokesperson told Eurogamer this morning.
Eh, credit card details being stolen is basically inconsequential these days. Usually your bank will catch any illegal uses and stop them, and if they don’t all it takes is a single call and it’ll be taken care of.
In cases like this though, it’s pretty much never your actual credit card details, but a token. That token is used by the store to charge your card, but it’s 100% useless to anyone else. Epic likely never even see your credit card details, they’d just go directly to the payment merchant who then give epic a token.