Fortnite Players Lob Shots at Epic Games Over Hacked Accounts

A number of Fortnite players recently suffered a breach of their Epic Game accounts, costing them hundreds of dollars and leaving them frustrated when they could not immediately reach the company for a refund.

Epic Games is facing a sizable challenge with its users, after a number of Fortnite players discovered cybercriminals had breached their game accounts and run up tabs worth hundreds of dollars.
Over the past several weeks, Fortnite players have been posting on
Reddit
and Fortnites
user forum board
concerning problems theyve faced in trying to get a refund for their breached accounts.
(Source:
Epic Games
)

On Monday afternoon, for example, a player that goes by the name Darksplinter stated on Reddit:

So no idea how this happened, I dont click on stupid links that are shady. I never save my payment options to accounts but I must have accidentally saved it. Bought the standard save the world in February and I play it off and on with friends. Today I get emailed thanking for my purchases. Someone upgraded my standard to deluxe and then deluxe to ultimate, so thats 0 gone and well I kind of need that for my car payment.

Epic Games has
issued some refunds,
according to a smattering of Fortnite players on Reddit and the Fortnite forum board. Additionally, the company has also weighed in on the issue.
We are aware of instances where users accounts have been compromised using well-known hacking techniques and are working to resolve these issues directly with those players affected, Epic Games said in a
statement
to Kotaku.
Epics tale
The game publisher recently
posted a notice
on its website, acknowledging the breach and offering steps users should take. According to its statement:

Weve seen several instances of account theft and fraud related to websites that claim to provide you free V-Bucks or the ability to share or buy accounts. Please never share your Epic account details with anyone. Epic will never ask you for your password through email, social media, or a non-Epic website. Groups claiming to provide special Fortnite deals this way are fraudulent.
At Epic, weve been working hard to try to hunt down password dumps in order to proactively reset passwords for player accounts when we believe they are leaked online. While this approach involves a lot of manual work on our side, we believe that it prevents a significant amount of fraud. However, this approach doesnt find every impacted account, or you might have created your Epic account after we checked a particular password dump.
As a result, were working to further automate our process to check our account database against password dumps to close the gap on identifying impacted users and resetting their passwords. Were also working hard to enable multi-factor authentication in the next few weeks and plan to have an additional blog post with more details soon.

Got game? Cybercriminals do
According to a
global survey
last year by Kaspersky Lab, 53% of survey respondents acknowledged they play online games.
Additionally, of the 17% of survey respondents who have experienced or been a target of an attack, 16% had their gaming accounts breached, according to the study.
Hacking gaming accounts, for example, can yield $1 per account, so its potentially lucrative for cybercriminals to hack and sell online game accounts in mass, the report states.
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— Dawn Kawamoto is an award-winning technology and business journalist, whose work has appeared in CNETs News.com, Dark Reading, TheStreet.com, AOLs DailyFinance and The Motley Fool
.

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