Epic Games' Breach Was a Total Scam
Mogilevich wanted to make some cash on other hackers.
Image credit: Epic Games
Last week, we reported that Mogilevich, a hacker group, claimed to have stolen 189 GB of internal Epic Games data but didn't provide any evidence to support this.
Recently, it has been revealed that there was no break-in, and the target of the group was actually other hackers. Additionally, hackers have lately shared a link to supposed data stolen from Epic Games, but instead of finding source code and other information, users were greeted with a message from Mogilevich.
"Unfortunately this link led you to an important announcement of our business instead of evidence of a breached database," Pongo, a Mogilevich spokesperson, shared with Cyber Daily. "You may be wondering why all this, and now I'm going to explain everything you need. In reality, we are not a ransomware-as-a-service, but professional fraudsters."
As the hackers say, they used the names of Epic Games and other companies "to gain visibility as quickly as possible, but not to fame [sic] and receive approval, but to build meticulously our new trafficking of victims to scam."
Pongo shared that the gang apparently sold non-existent software to eight novice hackers under the false promise of helping to hack the servers of companies like Epic Games. They also requested images of clients' crypto-wallets as proof that the matter was serious, using this data to boost the value of "their hacking software". Well, but it all was a scam.
Adding to the mentioned above, the scammers allegedly made $85,000 by falsely claiming a hack of the DJI network, but they haven't provided any proof that they actually fooled a buyer and made that amount of money.
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