"We're scammers," Epic Games hack was fabricated; culprits explain why

A few days ago, the hacker group Mogilevich claimed to have breached Epic Games' servers and stolen 190 GB of data. The company immediately launched an investigation and claimed that there was no indication of an attack.

We now know that Epic Games was right, as members of Mogilevich admitted that they invented the hack on the Fortnite studio and owners of the Epic Games Stores. Through a statement, they explained why they did it and claimed to actually be scammers.

No, there really wasn't a hack of Epic Games

Mogilevich threatened to sell the stolen information, which allegedly included passwords, usernames, payment information, emails and more. We now know that the group did not actually breach any systems or steal any information.

In fact, Mogilevich explained that they are not a hacker group dedicated to ransomware attacks, i.e. information hijacking. They claimed that they are actually a group of professional scammers and that they invented the hacking of Epic Games and other companies to gain visibility.

They shared a link that supposedly led to the studio's stolen information; however, it was actually a statement where they explained part of their operation. They claim that they fraudulently sold data obtained from their fake attacks, earning thousands of dollars.

“You may be wondering why all this, and now I’m going to explain everything you need. In reality, we are not a ransomware-as-a-service, but professional fraudsters. None of the databases listed in our blog were as true as you might have discovered recently. We took advantage of big names to gain visibility as quickly as possible, but not to fame [sic] and receive approval, but to build meticulously our new trafficking of victims to scam," the group said.

They claimed that they had potential buyers from various databases and were being tricked into selling them the information at the highest possible price, when in fact they had nothing in their hands.

"Now the real question is? Why confess all this when we could just run away? This was done to illustrate the process of our scam. We don’t think of ourselves as hackers but rather as criminal geniuses, if you can call us that," Mogilevich added.