techspot Hackers steal source code and more from Electronic Arts in massive data breach

[UltraMega]

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Electronic Arts has reportedly fallen victim to hackers claiming to have gotten away with roughly 780GB worth of data. As you've no doubt seen, security breaches are a dime a dozen these days. EA is playing this one off as relatively minor, and fortunately, no player data was compromised in the breach.

 

Motherboard was first to report on the matter, noting a source with access to various underground hacking forums tipped them off. Per the forum posts, the hackers said they acquired the source code for FIFA 21 in addition to code for the game’s matchmaking server. They also made away with source code and tools for the Frostbite game engine that drives franchises like Battlefield, Madden NFL and FIFA.

https://www.techspot.com/news/90020-hackers-steal-source-code-more-electronic-arts-massive.html

 

Hard to feel bad for EA. 

[mouacyk]

If they had a proper anti-cheat system, they can just generate new private encryption keys and it won't be a concern for ruining gameplay.  But if it's any half-assed security by obfuscation design, then they will likely need another 6-months to come up with another solution.

Edited June 11, 2021 by mouacyk

[Snakecharmed]

 

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 Per the forum posts, the hackers said they acquired the source code for FIFA 21

 

Who wants 10-year-old source code anyway? 

[J7SC_Orion]

1 hour ago, Snakecharmed said:

 

 

Who wants 10-year-old source code anyway? 

 

...apparently somebody does ! 

[schuck6566]

When your E3 announcement isn't quite what you thought it was gonna be......