Epic Games are investigating a claim that the Fortnite publishers have suffered a massive ransomware attack, with almos…
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Sounds like it’s fake. For one epic hasn’t noticed anything (so is it ransomware if they weren’t locked out?) And two they’re only asking for 15k. If it was actually valuable they’d be holding out for millions

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Maybe epic is keeping it quiet and the 15k is just a the opener, making them think they can get out of it cheap and get it then they ask for more.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Doubt it. 15k is way too low even for that. Looks more like we might have your data and it’s cheaper to pay us than investigating.