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Rael Hornby

Alleged Epic Games Store hack may include passwords and payment info — should you be worried?

Epic Games Store logo with thief peeking from behind the logo with a swag bag full of data.

Epic Games Store users may want to keep their eyes peeled on a developing story that sees a dark-web ransomware group by the name of Mogilevich claiming to have stolen nearly 200GB of data from the platform including emails, passwords, full names, payment information, and source code.

News of the potential hack comes from social media site X's Dark Web Informer, a user known for providing Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to the platform to spread awareness of potential breaches to consumers and businesses after threat actors reveal their actions on the Dark Web or wider internet.

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