Gaming Giant Electronic Arts Hacked And Source Code Stolen

Security experts shared a link on Gizmodo to a shadowy website where cybercriminals appear to be selling Electronic Arts for digital goods.

The gaming giant Electronic Arts have been hacked and cyber attackers are selling access to its gaming servers online, according to screenshots from an underground hacker forum obtained by Motherboard. Messages found on the site suggest that cybercriminals have stolen 780GB of electronic arts data, full access to the FIFA 21 matchmaking servers, FIFA 22 API keys, and software development kits for Microsoft Xbox and Sony.

The hackers said they had the full ability to exploit EA services and steal the data.

EA confirmed the breach to news channel Motherboard, saying a limited amount of data had been stolen. Bleepingcomputer spoke to players who sold EA data and claimed to have stolen the entire FIFA source and EA game client points, which are used as in-game currency.

One of the world’s largest computer game publishers has been hacked and valuable data stolen by attackers. Popular FIFA 21 publisher Electronic Arts have been compromised by hackers who stole valuable information, the company said. Hackers revealed that they stole the source code for the popular FIFA 21 sports game as well as source code and tools for Frostbite engine, which is controlled by various EA game titles including Battlefield.

The most popular cheats are designed to inject parts of the source code of the original games into another software. Some video game companies sue fraudsters for using aspects of the game code in their illegal products. Games that have leaked behind the scenes, said a member we’ll call Ridley, are shooter games like EAs Battlefield, which are popular targets for scammers and source code hackers.

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