CYBERSECURITY -
Extortion Doesn’t Work for EA Sports Hackers -
According to The Record, Electronic Arts Sports (EA) was the victim of a cyber hacking in June, when hackers posted on an underground hacking forum that they were in possession of EA data seeking a sale price of $28 million. The hackers were reportedly able to access EA’s system after purchasing tools that allowed authentication into an internal Slack communication thread from a dark web marketplace and mimicking a legitimate employee user’s account.
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