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https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5xpx/hackers-steal-data-electronic-arts-ea-fifa-source-code
Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA
The data includes source code for FIFA 21 and the Frostbite engine.

June 10, 2021, 12:56pm
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Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools, Motherboard has learned.

"You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services," the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed by Motherboard. A source with access to the forums, some of which are locked from public view, provided Motherboard with screenshots of the messages.

In those forum posts the hackers said they have taken the source code for FIFA 21, as well as code for its matchmaking server. The hackers also said they have obtained source code and tools for the Frostbite engine, which powers a number of EA games including Battlefield. Other stolen information includes proprietary EA frameworks and software development kits (SDKs), bundles of code that can make game development more streamlined. In all, the hackers say they have 780gb of data, and are advertising it for sale in various underground hacking forum posts viewed by Motherboard.

Do you work at EA? Do you know anything else about this breach? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.

EA confirmed to Motherboard that it had suffered a data breach and that the information listed by the hackers was the data that was stolen.

"We are investigating a recent incident of intrusion into our network where a limited amount of game source code and related tools were stolen," an EA spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement. "No player data was accessed, and we have no reason to believe there is any risk to player privacy. Following the incident, we’ve already made security improvements and do not expect an impact on our games or our business. We are actively working with law enforcement officials and other experts as part of this ongoing criminal investigation."

Along with their forum posts the hackers shared a small selection of screenshots claiming to demonstrate their access to EA data, but did not publicly distribute any of the internal data itself. Instead, the hackers are, at least ostensibly, trying to sell the information.

"Only serious and rep [reputation] members all other would be ignored," the hackers wrote in their post.



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wow so they have the source code for
fifa 2022,
fifa 2023,
fifa 2024,
fifa 2025,
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fifa 2096,
fifa 2097,
fifa 2098,
fifa 2099!
 

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So did they actually steal anything useful?
In theory this could lead to Venice Unleashed for all Frostbite games
https://veniceunleashed.net/

wow so they have the source code for
fifa 2022,
fifa 2023,
fifa 2024,
fifa 2025,
fifa 2026,
fifa 2027,
fifa 2028,
fifa 2029,
fifa 2030,
fifa 2031,
fifa 2032,
fifa 2033,
fifa 2034,
fifa 2035,
fifa 2036,
fifa 2037,
fifa 2038,
fifa 2039,
fifa 2040,
fifa 2041,
fifa 2042,
fifa 2043,
fifa 2044,
fifa 2045,
fifa 2046,
fifa 2047,
fifa 2048,
fifa 2049,
fifa 2050,
fifa 2051,
fifa 2052,
fifa 2053,
fifa 2054,
fifa 2055,
fifa 2056,
fifa 2057,
fifa 2058,
fifa 2059,
fifa 2060,
fifa 2061,
fifa 2062,
fifa 2063,
fifa 2064,
fifa 2065,
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fifa 2067,
fifa 2068,
fifa 2069,
fifa 2070,
fifa 2071,
fifa 2072,
fifa 2073,
fifa 2074,
fifa 2075,
fifa 2076,
fifa 2077,
fifa 2078,
fifa 2079,
fifa 2080,
fifa 2081,
fifa 2082,
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fifa 2084,
fifa 2085,
fifa 2086,
fifa 2087,
fifa 2088,
fifa 2089,
fifa 2090,
fifa 2091,
fifa 2092,
fifa 2093,
fifa 2094,
fifa 2095,
fifa 2096,
fifa 2097,
fifa 2098,
fifa 2099!
Looking forward to fifa 2100 running on a brand new engine
 

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This is seems to be a recent common trend
I wonder if it's the same group behind all previous attacks...

Yeah, either there has been a dramatic increase in these attacks in the last few weeks or it's been going on for a long time but companies are only starting to admit it now.
 
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it's not like anyone can use that code in a world where even farts are copyrighted. either ea has nothing to lose or they did it themselves for advertising reasons, like valve did.
 

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It’s being sold off for around 28 mil apparently.

I don’t expect any of us will be able to see it, nor that the hackers are going to be “exposing EA’s corruption” anytime soon.
 

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It’s being sold off for around 28 mil apparently.

I don’t expect any of us will be able to see it, nor that the hackers are going to be “exposing EA’s corruption” anytime soon.


They should just go full EA and sell most of the code for 28mill and then start selling the rest in DLC parts of 9.99 mill each
 

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I don’t expect any of us will be able to see it, nor that the hackers are going to be “exposing EA’s corruption” anytime soon.

I assumed the leak would be the same as the Valve dump (CS:GO and TF2) that happened a while ago. I didn't know they're trying to sell the EA source code for millions. So, I deserved the fabulously optimistics Diablo1_reborn and Jonathan "Zee Cat threw my way. :lol:
 
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Oh, darn, I was hoping we'd get to see some of the abuse EA inflicts on its employees, but I guess EA's modern multiplayer games turning into a cheating wasteland is cool too.
 

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