Epic Games ‘hackers’ admit threat of leak was phony

An alleged hack of Epic Games was revealed, by the “hackers” in question, to be fake. Last week, a ransomware group claimed to have made off with 200GB of unspecified data from Epic Games, with the presumption being that it planned to extort money from the company. However, the group has now said that it doesn’t actually have such data, and was trying to pull a con on the company.

The group, called Mogilevich, apparently demanded $15,000 from Epic in exchange for the data. Epic Games themselves didn’t respond to the alleged hack at the time. A spokesperson later told Eurogamer that the group didn’t contact the company directly, and the first they saw of it was a tweet from a third-party reporting the sum. “We are investigating but there is currently zero evidence that these claims are legitimate.”