EA Hacked

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:26

Hackers have stolen valuable information from major game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), the company said.

The attackers claimed to have downloaded source code for games such as FIFA 21 and for the proprietary Frostbite game engine used as the base for many other high-profile games.

News of the hack was first reported by news site Vice, which said some 780GB of data was stolen.

EA said no player data had been stolen in the breach.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57431987

BobShark · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:33

Was just reading this.

Used to be a fifa player some time ago, would love to see any of their loot box and dynamic difficulty skullduggery to be shared with the world

tlrBeta · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:35

#whocares ?

Let's only hope they dont sell it to another developer and we see yet more reskins and terrible games.....AE games coming soon.

BUDFORCE · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:36

What you gonna do with that anyway?
I mean really?

I guess unless you random EA for it back.

BobShark · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:36

AE

Hope it doesn't damage BF2042, although it likely will

Scougar · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:45

Waits for the source code for "update game year and branding" to be released.

Rroff · 10 Jun 2021 at 19:47

BUDFORCE said:
What you gonna do with that anyway?
I mean really?

I guess unless you random EA for it back.

Similar happened with City of Heroes which meant eventually the game has come back after being sunset by the publisher. Fortunately they seem to have taken a somewhat pragmatic view of it.

(Though I think in that case it wasn't so much a hack as such just a mixture of things which lead to various people having access to the source outside the company including former developers who managed to put together something working - initially in secret)

Malevolence · 10 Jun 2021 at 20:46

BobShark said:
Hope it doesn't damage BF2042, although it likely will

Should be safe, you can't really damage an abortion.

Yaayuh! · 10 Jun 2021 at 21:38

Obligatory “LOL”.

Armageus · 10 Jun 2021 at 21:40

Malevolence said:
Should be safe, you can't really damage an abortion.

Yaayuh! · 10 Jun 2021 at 22:42

Malevolence said:
Should be safe, you can't really damage an abortion.

Brutal! But true.

BobShark · 10 Jun 2021 at 22:45

Malevolence said:
Should be safe, you can't really damage an abortion.

McBain · 10 Jun 2021 at 22:54

In for AE Games!

Disco_P · 11 Jun 2021 at 02:42

I don't really care for EA but the source code being around for frostbite means that cheat coders will have a much easier time and they can be far more malicious

Etheco · 11 Jun 2021 at 16:26

This isn't good considering games have a problem already with hackers, time to stop playing any online EA games?

arknor · 11 Jun 2021 at 16:40

How are these massive companies losing so much stuff constantly what a joke, they don't deserve to even hold a users login details bro....
Make steam great again, erm I mean bring back cdkeys like the oldern days... cd key to login..... cd key not authorised you can no play......

soundb0y · 11 Jun 2021 at 16:41

Can this be used to prove the scripting on fifa?

doodah · 11 Jun 2021 at 16:44

EA are going to strike back at them with hacking microtransactions.

Etheco · 11 Jun 2021 at 16:44

soundb0y said:
Can this be used to prove the scripting on fifa?

It was the entire source code wasn't it for FIFA so I assume once people start picking at it yes they can.

TimAhKin · 11 Jun 2021 at 18:13

So many big companies/corporations have weak security.
Shouldn't be a big hit to EA as for most games they recycle the code from the previous year.