364
Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info
(www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Hahaha fuck epic
this post was submitted on 29 Feb 2024
364 points (98.1% liked)
Games
32506 readers
1475 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Weekly Threads:
Rules:
-
Submissions have to be related to games
-
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
-
No excessive self-promotion
-
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
-
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
-
No linking to piracy
More information about the community rules can be found here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
it's all good. this sort of thing happens constantly
I mean oh no, my library of free games...
Gosh, what happens to my payment info in such a case?
189GB hack
That's how we're quantifying them now??
Is that street value?
They stole half a copy of the latest Call Of Duty
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112010182183098717
Trustworthy infosec folks seem to suggest that this ransomeware group is full of shit. I suppose we will see though.
Press X to doubt.
Nah, use Mastodon or Bluesky 😜
I hate this... 😂
Situations like this are why I never save my payment information anywhere.
I use a CC, so I really don't give a shit if someone steals my number.
Last time my card got skimmed it was $0 and <30 seconds to fix, including hold time. They don't fuck around when you're reporting stolen info, because legally it's their money, not yours.
If I only have an account through Xbox login, and my only payment method is PayPal, what kind of risks are there?
You're fine unless something happens to PayPal.
Glad I never made an account there
Free games in exchange for identity theft. No thanks.
Press F for all those people who decided to pay for shit on that platform because of the holiday 25% off voucher. Saved $15 in exchange for random unauthorized charges in the future.
In the situation that payment details are leaked - I presume one must cancel the associated card?
For me I started using a service called Privacy a few years ago and haven't looked back so far. It's changed how I handle all online transactions. It let's you create virtual cards that are either good once or forever and once it's used by that merchant it's tied to them. So if someone ever did try to charge you that wasn't that exact merchant it gets blocked. You can set daily, and monthly limits as well and pause the card or close it whenever. So I would use this virtual card for the payment on epic and then this happens and all I do is close it out and open a new one. So far I did have 1 place that had my card charged from a place that wasn't them. The cool part is you know who almost screwed you because of the card thats being used. It was a local pizza place and I called to let them know they probably got hacked.
You can’t sound more like an ad haha
My bad lol. It is really great though!
One used to have a similar thing before they got bought out by Walmart and started dropping features 🙃
Good thing Epic doesn't have my card information because I only use it for the free games. Now if this was steam I be worried.
It's almost surprising, for good shitty EGS is, that they don't makes you save a payment method to check out the free games.
I'm not sure if I've ever entered mine either. I ought to go check...
I can't see any listed in the Manage Payment Management section.
I assume I never saved them, when I bought Outer Wilds years ago.
That was my thought, too.
But you’ll get free credit checks for a year so nothing to fear
Hrm, depends. Usually in modern online payment systems it should be impossible for the debitor to have the CVC of the card and hence leaked information could not make actual payments from it, but it could spam the card's number with bogus payments to continuously keep it being blocked.
In any case if you're affected I would recommend asking your bank how to proceed, just to be on the safe side.
That's not a requirement. You can make payments without one though the odds of approval aren't great. If the actual real card numbers got leaked, you need to cancel that card. Also if they actually leaked REAL card numbers, Epic is going to be in deep shit with the card brands.
This article has no real details though so we'll see. I kind of doubt this is legit.
I guess the answer is money, but why would you do any handling of card details in-house. Having a third party process transactions passes to some degree ensuring security onto said third party.
I'd still doubt any risk of full card details being leaked unless the hack goes much deeper than just Epic.
On the other hand, when steam had a leak a few years ago (where you could see other people’s account details after logging in instead of yours) my credit card got exchanged automatically by the bank, as they saw that I had used it to buy games on steam - even though in this „leak“ only the last 4 digits were leaked and nothing more