Hackers breach gaming giant Electronic Arts, steal game source code
Hackers have breached the network of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) and claim to have stolen roughly 750 GB of data, including game source code and debug tools.
EA confirmed the data breach in a statement saying that this “was not a ransomware attack, that a limited amount of code and related tools were stolen, and we do not expect any impact to our games or our business.”
The attackers claim to have access to all of EA’s services, telling customers willing to pay $28 million for the stolen data that they will also gain “full capability of exploiting on all ea services,” as first reported by Motherboard.
In all, the hackers claim to have stolen a massive trove of data from EA’s network, including:
EA spokesperson told that: “We are investigating a recent incident of intrusion into our network where a limited amount of game source code and related tools were stolen”.
