Ransomware group admits Epic Games 'hack' was a hoax

According to VGC , the ransomware group that recently claimed to have attacked Epic Games has admitted that it was just a hoax.

Last week, a group of hackers known as Mogilevich posted information on a dark web data leak site, claiming a data breach they said they had carried out against the company behind Fortnite and the Epic Games Store. The group said they had stolen a large amount of data, including emails, passwords, full names, payment information, source code, and more, totaling 189GB in size.

Epic Games was not hacked, hackers confirm

However, unlike the infamous Rhysida hack that targeted Insomniac Games in late 2023, Mogilevich did not provide any actual evidence that they had hacked into Epic Games' systems.

Epic later said they were investigating, but there was no evidence to support the claims. Now, as Cyber ​​Daily reports, Mogilevich has admitted that they don't have any Epic Games data and are running another scam.

Instead of trying to sell Epic's internal data, Mogilevich says they're trying to sell their fake ransomware infrastructure to other potential attackers. The group claims that instead of trying to sell illegally collected data, they're trying to scam other cybercriminals out of money.

“Why confess all this when we can just run away?” group member Pongo asked in a statement. “This is to illustrate our scam process. We don’t consider ourselves hackers but criminal geniuses.”

Cyber ​​Daily suggests that these justifications may also be false, so it's unclear what the group was trying to achieve. However, Epic's internal data wasn't actually breached.

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