Bugs On Epic Games Site Allowed Hackers To Login to Any ‘Fortnite’ Player’s Account

Bugs On Epic Games Site Allowed Hackers To Login to Any ‘Fortnite’ Player’s Account

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Cybercriminals could have hacked into any Fortnite player’s account by taking advantage of a series of flaws on the video game maker’s website, according to new research.

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point found that they could redirect traffic from Epic Games’s main login page—accounts.epicgames.com—to another page on the company’s website. There, they could then steal login tokens, a sort of digital key that allows Fortnite players to login with their accounts on other services such as Facebook, PlayStationNetwork, Xbox Live, Nintendo, and Google+.

Bugs On Epic Games Site Allowed Hackers To Login to Any ‘Fortnite’ Player’s Account

Jan 16, 2019, 4:24pm UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vba5nb/fornite-login-hack-epic-games-website > Cybercriminals could have hacked into any Fortnite player’s account by taking advantage of a series of flaws on the video game maker’s website, according to new research. > Researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point found that they could redirect traffic from Epic Games’s main login page—accounts.epicgames.com—to another page on the company’s website. There, they could then steal login tokens, a sort of digital key that allows Fortnite players to login with their accounts on other services such as Facebook, PlayStationNetwork, Xbox Live, Nintendo, and Google+.