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The hackers who breached Electronic Arts last month have released the entire cache of stolen data after failing to extort the company and later sell the stolen files to a third-party buyer.The data, dumped on an underground cybercrime forum on Monday, July 26, is now being widely distributed on torrent sites.According to a copy of the dump obtained by The Record, the leaked files contain the source code of the FIFA 21 soccer game, including tools to support the companys server-side services.How the EA breach took placeThe existence of this leak was initially disclosed on June 10, when the hackers posted a thread on an underground hacking forum claiming to be in possession of EA data, which they were willing to sell for $28 million.In an interview with Motherboard, the hackers claimed to have gained access to the data after buying authentication cookies for an EA internal Slack channel from a dark web marketplace called Genesis.The hackers said they used the authentication cookies to mimick an already-logged-in EA employees account and access EAs Slack channel and then trick an EA IT support staffer into granting them access to the companys internal network.From there, the hackers then proceeded to download more than 780GB of source code from the companys internal code repositories.While initially, the hackers hoped to earn a big payday from the EA hack, they failed to find any buyers on the underground market, as the stolen data was mostly source code that lacked any value for other cybercrime groups, most of which are interested in user personal or financial data primarily.After failing to find a buyer, the hackers tried to extort EA, asking the company to pay an undisclosed sum and avoid having the data leaked online.Initially, they released a cache of 1.3GB of FIFA source code on July 14, only to release the entire data two weeks later after EA shunned their threats.In a statement sent to The Record after the release of the full data, EA confirmed that no player data was accessed during the hackers intrusion and the company has no reason to believe there is any risk to player privacy as a result of the leak.Following the incident, weve already made security improvements and do not expect an impact on our games or our business, an EA spokesperson told The Record. We are actively working with law enforcement officials and other experts as part of this ongoing criminal investigation.Screenshots from the leaked data are available below.Image: The RecordImage: The RecorImage: The RecordImage: The RecordImage: The RecordImage: The RecordImage: The Record United KingdomAugust 29 2021In a further development to the EA hack, the attackers who accessed the gaming giants systems and stole their source code, including for popular games like FIFA 21, have now leaked all of the stolen data.The attack first came to light in June. When EA refused to pay the ransom for the return of the stolen data, the hackers began to drip-feed the code onto the dark web, and offering the full cache for sale for $28m. When this attempt to pressure EA into paying failed, the criminals simply dumped the entirety of the 780GB data on a cybercrime forum.This is an interesting development for EA. Where it is not personal data, stolen data is of most value to the hacked company (hence the attackers efforts to find more ways of trying to extort EA). In the present case, EAs decision to hold firm and not pay seems to have convinced the attackers that they are not, in fact, holding anything of value. As such, theyve simply dropped the stolen goods. The source code is apparently circulating on torrent sites, however, and it remains to be seen if any of the data can exploited in the future.Of further interest is the way that the attackers managed to obtain the data in the first place. They say that they purchased authentication cookies for an internal EA Slack channel. Once within the Slack channel, posing as a logged-in employee, they tricked EAs IT team into granting them further access to the companys systems. From there, they stole the 780GB of data. It is normally difficult for a company to determine how a breach originated - the novelty in this situation is the extent to which the attackers have been willing to disclose their methods of entry. In the present case, that is likely simply to be a further gambit in the extortion playbook: the publicity was likely designed to put EA under more pressure to pay for the return of their data. In this case, it hasnt worked.Hackers leak full EA data after failed extortion attempthttps:therecord.mediahackers-leak-full-ea-data-after-failed-extortion-attempt Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForges nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! × 149731135 story Posted by msmash on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:41AM from the tussle-continues dept. The hackers who breached Electronic Arts last month have released the entire cache of stolen data after failing to extort the company and later sell the stolen files to a third-party buyer. From a report: The data, dumped on an underground cybercrime forum on Monday, July 26, is now being widely distributed on torrent sites. According to a copy of the dump obtained by The Record, the leaked files contain the source code of the FIFA 21 soccer game, including tools to support the companys server-side services. The existence of this leak was initially disclosed on June 10, when the hackers posted a thread on an underground hacking forum claiming to be in possession of EA data, which they were willing to sell for $28 million.

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