Last week, an investigation began into an alleged hacker attack on the servers. Epic Games. Some Mogilevich group must have obtained internal data on the size 189 GB, including email addresses, passwords, full names, payment information or source codes. Despite the blackmail, the group did not provide any evidence and did not communicate with the authors of Unreal Engine 5 and Fortnite.
She had a reason for this. It turned out that this was not a ransomware group, but professional scammers who claimed to have previously hacked other well-known companies. Their goal was to get money. Now they have revealed their plan to show what criminal masterminds they are. According to them, they managed to sell the supposed data of the drone manufacturer DJI for $85,000.
“The price for the proposed terabyte database was one hundred thousand dollars. Interested parties immediately contacted us, one of them was calm, as if he were the boss.” revealed one of the group members. They say they were able to convince the buyer that even a small data breach would be harmful, so no evidence was provided. He ended up having to buy the proposed database for $85,000.
Source :Indian TV
