EA Data Breach

Thank you @logion I appreciate you taking the time to explain. I suppose it would be more an issue for online/multiplayer games?
Silly me tends to forget that EA do more games than the Sims :lol: .

I am not so concerned about log ins due to two factor and the fact I never used my card, but it does have me worry for online components of the game. With new insights into the source code and game code, who knows if something like the gallery could potentially hide malware. I have no idea what security they have in place for someone attempting to do that.

Still waiting for somebody to post that Sims 4 source code, it would be a dream come true for the modding community.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, nothing is hack proof. You can try change your passwords and what not but the bottom line is that it is EA's service you are using and it wouldn't really matter. If it can be done once it can be done twice, even after the changes from EA's side and nothing would prevent it from happening on that second attempt either.

The best you can hope for is that EA doesn't get hacked twice.

There have been some new information which explains how they managed to hack them as well. Turns out it was social engineering. They managed to make them believe that they were an employee who had lost their phone at a party and wanted a new one.

Unfortunately it's still common that this happens in companies because people don't believe that the person on the other end might not be who they claim to be...

Hopefully EA focuses on security measures, like 2FA and VPN for employees and that they also always double check if a situation like that happens so they can confirm that you actually work at the company.

Meh, I have gotten so many emails & letters saying my info may have been compromised during a data breach that I have gone from panicking to ??‍♀️ Whatever.

"Pamtastic72;c-17915438" wrote:
Meh, I have gotten so many emails & letters saying my info may have been compromised during a data breach that I have gone from panicking to ??‍♀️ Whatever.

You start to disbelieve them when they ask you for your personal details so that they can keep you safe! If they start doing that you should report them to a Fraud site in whatever country you are in.

There is a site to check on whether you might be compromised for emails and passwords. An old one I had was compromised a long time ago. I never leave my debit card saved anywhere now. An online shop lately did a check-up to see if I was who I said I was, so the well run sites are checking on this.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

"Simburian;c-17915469" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17915438" wrote:
Meh, I have gotten so many emails & letters saying my info may have been compromised during a data breach that I have gone from panicking to ??‍♀️ Whatever.

You start to disbelieve them when they ask you for your personal details so that they can keep you safe! If they start doing that you should report them to a Fraud site in whatever country you are in.

There is a site to check on whether you might be compromised for emails and passwords. An old one I had was compromised a long time ago. I never leave my debit card saved anywhere now. An online shop lately did a check-up to see if I was who I said I was, so the well run sites are checking on this.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I don’t save my debit card on sites anymore either and I try to keep my data safe, but the fact is once you give information to a company it’s incumbent upon them to keep it safe and too many don’t. AT&T sent me a letter saying my info had been breached, as has Blue Cross, my cable company, my local hospital, and the grocery store I frequent most because they had all been hacked at some point in time. I pretty much assume at this point that info about me is out their floating about now and there’s really nothing I can do about it.

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17910631" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17908818" wrote:
Who pays 28 million USD just to be able to hack some games? Must be really important to win at FIFA or something.

Yeah, some of those FIFA gamers are really obsessive to win their games! I think whoever buys the source code could stand to make a lot of money from reading through the source code and creating hacks from it. The source code for example would show what the true percentages are for acquiring the more valuable loot boxes, so the modder can produce programs to improve the likelihood of getting those more valuable assets. Also check for vulnerabilities in the game that they can take advantage of somehow. Or even just to copy the coding technology for their own games. I can imagine some of the Frostbite engine would be interesting to other game developers.

I can see how it would be interesting to other game developers, but then wouldn't it be possible to tell if they used stolen EA source code in their product? As for hacks and loot boxes, well I imagine if someone pays 28 million USD just to hack and win some lootboxes, they must have 28 million to waste. There is no profit in that unless they somehow sell the hacks to players or something.