Group that claimed it stole data from Epic admits it didn't happen, Epic says the whole thing was 'a scam'

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Group that claimed it stole data from Epic admits it didn't happen, Epic says the whole thing was 'a scam'
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Following a report last week of a ransomware attack on Epic Games that allegedly made off with nearly 200GB of data, Epic now says the whole thing was in fact", was supposedly carried out by a hacking group calling itself Mogilevich, presumably adopting the name of notorious Russian crime boss.

"None of the databases listed in our blog were as true as you might have discovered recently," a representative of the group calling themselves Pongo wrote."We took advantage of big names to gain visibility as quickly as possible, but not to fame and receive approval, but to build meticulously our new trafficking of victims to scam."

"This was done to illustrate the process of our scam," Pongo wrote."We don't think of ourselves as hackers but rather as criminal geniuses, if you can call us that. Of course, as Cyber Daily noted, none of that rationale is verifiable, and it's also possible that Mogilevich knew Epic wasn't going to play ball and decided to stake a little claim to fame while it still could.

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