Epic Games are investigating a claim that the Fortnite publishers have suffered a massive ransomware attack, with almos…
The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of the data, with a deadline of 4th March.
Epic, however, say that they’ve yet to see any proof that a ransomware attack has taken place. “We are investigating but there is currently zero evidence that these claims are legitimate,” a spokesperson told Eurogamer this morning.
No, when you store your card, it doesn’t actually store the whole card details. It communicates with the payment processor and when the card is approved, it gets back a token that says “this card is valid”, so in the future they just have to send that token and the payment processor says “yup I know the card you’re talking about”.
At least that’s how it’s supposed to be. You’re really not supposed to store card info yourself.
That’s the ideal, but not always the case. Last time I read the PCI rules, merchants could (still) handle/store card details just as they could before the hands-off approach existed; it just required someone to attest that precautions were taken. I’m sure you can guess how foolproof that is.
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No, when you store your card, it doesn’t actually store the whole card details. It communicates with the payment processor and when the card is approved, it gets back a token that says “this card is valid”, so in the future they just have to send that token and the payment processor says “yup I know the card you’re talking about”.
At least that’s how it’s supposed to be. You’re really not supposed to store card info yourself.
Don’t forget that we’re talking about a company that took 3 years to add a shopping cart to their store
My last role was in payment processing and this is exactly how we did it.
Mine was too. We still had a couple systems using the old methods, but mostly had moved to the token system.
You also just get laid off? They took out ~50% of the payments department at my last job
Nah, got laid off last March.
That’s the ideal, but not always the case. Last time I read the PCI rules, merchants could (still) handle/store card details just as they could before the hands-off approach existed; it just required someone to attest that precautions were taken. I’m sure you can guess how foolproof that is.
Just don’t use a debit card?
Credit cards have all sorts of consumer protections if the card gets stolen.
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