The purpose of the hackers was to get the Vice to soak up the Electronic Arts name. The publication did not do so. This has consequences.
In June, a couple of hackers got into Electronic Arts ’data servers who allegedly stole the FIFA 21 and the Frostbite engine for shooting games (e.g. Battlefield 2042). This is where the picture comes in Vice, which wrote that hackers demanded money from publishers. This did not happen and so attackers begin to disclose the information obtained.
The hackers wrote an email to Electronic Arts a few weeks ago, but they didn’t get a response to the demand for money, and if the publisher won’t visit them, they will continue to leak. To this, the Motherboard (Vice tech section) wrote that they had already seen 1.3 gigabytes of data, including references to Electronic Arts’ internally used devices and Origin, EA’s digital store. Nonetheless, the publisher is unwilling to pay (although it would be what they would be if they were already putting a big arc on the PC at FIFA 22 while looking for themselves in the ultimate Team segments of their sports games, which can be considered a casino mode…).
Electronic Arts is aware of posts written by alleged hackers and also analyzes leaked files, but in the meantime, the company believes that players ‘safety is not compromised despite the data in question falling into unauthorized hands, and Electronic Arts’ games are not financially endangered. They are already working with U.S. federal law enforcement to ensure that the investigation is moving at the right pace and that the handcuffs click on the wrists of the perpetrators.
And here comes the joke: a few weeks after the attack, the hackers visited the Motherboard to convey the message demanding the money through them, but the site didn’t stand behind them. So the joking situation is that hackers can slowly push the entire data packet onto the net and the publisher just shrugs.
Source: PCGamer
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