Epic Hit With Class-Action Suit Over Hacked Fortnite Accounts

Epic Games is being sued over security breaches that allowed hackers to access the personal information of Epic Games accounts. From a report: The class-action lawsuit, filed by Franklin D. Azar & Associates in U.S. District Court in North Carolina, alleges Epic's "failure to maintain adequate security measures and notify users of the security breach in a timely manner." The lawsuit states that "there are more than 100 class members." In January, Epic acknowledged that a bug in Fortnite may have exposed personal information for millions of user accounts.

I hear the payout will be...

[mandark1967]

Epic

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[Kohath]

Lawyers get 10 million, Fortnite players get half off a costume purchase.

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[twocows]

I don't know which is better: the ten million going to lawyers to pay for their sixth mansion or the company getting to keep it and do bad things with impunity. Because at the moment, those are the two options in the class action versus no class action argument. The actual victims get shafted either way.

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[DontBeAMoran]

Because at the moment, those are the two options in the class action versus no class action argument. The actual victims get shafted either way.

Giggity.

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[Kohath]

Everyone who buys products or services technically pays extra for things to cover those class action payouts to lawyers. You can decide for yourself whether that's worthwhile.

Re: I hear the payout will be...

[ToasterMonkey]

You also pay for any extra costs to mitigate the risk of it happening either again, or somewhere else, but this isn't altogether a bad thing if it's a good change.

Class actions set a cost for doing Bad Things that are small costs to an individual but add up over a lot of people. Like mishandling account security, small but inappropriate fees, serving coffee too hot, etc.

I took an ...

[nospam007]

...epic hit from my Storz& Bickel after reading this,

Just someone else.....

[bev_tech_rob]

...... looking to 'get paid' as Eddie Murphy once eloquently put it.....

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[locopuyo]

Exactly. The people weren't even actually hacked, there was just a vulnerability that people could have been hacked through. Epic has no legal obligation to notify users that didn't have anything hacked.

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[rtb61]

Of course there is the other hacking, the hacking of the wet ware. You can psycho analyse a person really effectively by monitoring their game play style and interactions, know more about them, then they know about themselves, M$ filed a patent on it, you know what they are doing with xbox telemetry about you, perhaps you don't want to know. A lot of them get a lot of info on you by monitoring your gameplay telemetry. Perhaps you should sue for that invasion of privacy and force disclosure to see what they

lol

[therealobsideus]

Frank Azar, the Strong Arm.

So what happens

[Malays Bowman]

When Fortnite goes belly up, and some of the players lose hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of virtual bobbles? I would really hate to be one of those players on the day they try to log in, and they get "can't connect to server" which will be forever.