Gaming Giant EA Suffers Major Data Breach

Hackers have stolen a wealth of data from gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA), including game source code and tools for several popular games, it has been reported.

Cyber-criminals made the claim in blog posts published on underground hacking forums, where they advertised a total of 780GB of data for sale. These posts were viewed and detailed by Motherboard, who EA informed that it had indeed suffered a data breach.

Among the data stolen was the source code for the popular football game FIFA 21 and code for its matchmaking server, and source code and tools for the Frostbite engine, which powers several EA games, including Battlefield. Additionally, the attackers took proprietary EA frameworks and software development kits.

Fortunately, it appears that hackers stole no personal data of customers in the breach, and EA told Motherboard that it does not expect the attack to impact “our games or our business.” This means that players should not be at an increased risk of cyber-attacks, phishing or identity theft.

Tom Van de Wiele, the principal security consultant at F-Secure, explained that the biggest impact of the data theft could that it offers valuable information for EA’s competitors to exploit. He said that “The EA source code and tools have a surprisingly high value to any company that operates in the shadows and want to get a leg up in competing with the bigger game development companies. Being able to steal an algorithm, approach, or game assets themselves and integrate them fast means not having to develop them on your own and means money and effort is saved that can be d ..

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