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Electronic Arts (FIFA 21 Ecosystem)

11 Jun 2021 · National · Media & Entertainment
Data Breach HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

Threat actors successfully social-engineered an internal IT helpdesk agent via Slack to bypass multi-factor authentication. The intruders subsequently exfiltrated 780 gigabytes of data, including the core source code for FIFA 21 and the proprietary Frostbite game engine.

Incident details

Organisation
Electronic Arts (FIFA 21 Ecosystem)
Date
11 Jun 2021
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Media & Entertainment
State
National
Records affected
780GB
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

techradar.com ↗
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