Ransomware group admits Epic Games 'hack' was a hoax

According to VGC , the ransomware hacker group that recently claimed to have attacked Epic Games has admitted that it was just a hoax.

Last week, a group of hackers known as Mogilevich posted information on a dark web data leak site, announcing a data breach they said they had carried out against the company behind Fortnite and the Epic Games Store. The group said they had stolen a trove of data including emails, passwords, full names, payment information, source code, and more, totaling 189GB in size.

However, unlike the infamous Rhysida hack that targeted Insomniac Games in late 2023, Mogilevich did not provide any actual evidence that they had hacked into Epic Games' systems.

Epic later said they were investigating, but there was no evidence to suggest the claims were true. Now, as Cyber ​​Daily reports, Mogilevich has admitted that they did not have any Epic Games data and were running another scam.

Instead of trying to sell Epic's internal data, Mogilevich said they were trying to sell their fake ransomware infrastructure to other potential attackers. The group claims that instead of trying to sell illegally collected data, they were trying to scam other cybercriminals out of money.

“Why confess all this when we can get away with it?” group member Pongo asked in a statement. “This is done to illustrate our scam process. We don’t consider ourselves hackers but criminal geniuses.”

Cyber ​​Daily suggests that these justifications may also be false, so it's unclear what the group was trying to achieve. However, Epic's internal data was not actually compromised by the group.