Epic Games hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info

[s_dev]

I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but the Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs has confirmed they've seen no evidence of a breach. Not sure how common it is but perhaps just a bluff to get some Bitcoin?

[TehCorwiz]

7GB fits neatly on a thumb drive. Could just be a lost device.

[j45]

Wow.

It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.

[unshavedyak]

For almost all my signups these days i use FastMail's email alias feature (built in support in 1Pass now too). I adore it.

The moment someone comes up with that for CCs with no real downside i'm signing up for them too.

[xyst]

My card generates a new CVV every so often so this is painless.

iCloud makes it stupid simple to generate email addresses for individual services.

I do want to migrate away from Apple but for now this “just works”

[greenavocado]

I have 800+ accounts managed with a password manager

[1970-01-01]

Login and payment info tells me this hack is not likely. Maybe a few accounts were sprayed.

[croes]

The hack was fake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39586495

[acheron]

Uh oh, do they have my payment info from when I bought Castle of the Winds?

[Kluggy]

What a blast from the past. That used to be my favorite game growing up. I wish it would run on modern machines semi-well.

[mvdtnz]

This website keeps making the claim that it's a ransomware attack, but neither the original tweet nor Epic's response seem to back that up. Looks like a run of the mill data exfiltration to me.

Also this website has the most insane cookie consent flow I've seen yet. Shameful.