EA Hack Leads To Over 700GB Of Data Stolen, Including FIFA 21 Source Code - Couldn't have happened to a more deserving company

[Absolutego]

"FIFA 21 source code was stolen"
so nothing of value. knowing EA it was probably the same code for the past 20 years with an annual tart up and port over. Fuck them

They had to do a decent revamp ca. 2016 because that's when all EA Sports titles had to start using Frostbite, which probably required re-tooling or outright re-creating old features because, prior to that all the engine was good for was making action shooters.
But yeah, since then the yearly re-skins and stripping of features in order to keep working on Ultimate Team has only gotten more blatant than in the early 2010's.

 

[Titos]

Imagine if you just didn't connect the computers that work on sensitive tools to the internet. What a novel concept.
Of course because corporations are not so smart they would most likely have wifi routers anyway, so parking a car in the front of the building still could do the trick if they don't maintain those properly.

Good luck getting in and out of a system that only runs on cables. You would need to insert a USB drive or something to get the leak and then copy it to something that can be used to transfer it.

You can have a local area network on it's own, you know, so your horny interns or more likely boomer (genX) bosses won't be able to click on phishing emails and other things.

Can't corporations afford IT guys nowadays? Geez.

It always baffles me companies do that shit. The company I work for is a hackers wet dream, if they were to break into shit it would be a huge payday whether or not ransom was paid. Everything is segmented and takes a fuckton of different passwords which each have different requirements and even then that's just to get access to a standard desktop. Accessing the actual info is a whole other can of worms. It's baffling that these tards who look at code all day and are able to program physics shit are so incompetent when it comes to security.

 

[moocow]

Okay. Red pill me on how to hack and steal information from a network you can't connect to. Actually don't, just send your resume to the NSA and become rich.

>Hand malware-infested high-capacity USB flash drive to someone (anyone) in the company that trusts you.
>Wait a few days.
>Ask for it back.
Send money plz.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

I started buying used appliances and some electronics years ago to avoid buying "smart" anything. My toaster oven does not need wifi.

But how can it access the internet when you're not using it?

 

[Blamo]

>Hand malware-infested high-capacity USB flash drive to someone (anyone) in the company that trusts you.
>Wait a few days.
>Ask for it back.
Send money plz.

Human Intelligence just works.

It always baffles me companies do that shit. The company I work for is a hackers wet dream, if they were to break into shit it would be a huge payday whether or not ransom was paid. Everything is segmented and takes a fuckton of different passwords which each have different requirements and even then that's just to get access to a standard desktop. Accessing the actual info is a whole other can of worms. It's baffling that these tards who look at code all day and are able to program physics shit are so incompetent when it comes to security.

On one hand, I can say that generally people are only caring about their own position and specialization. Rarely looking at the bigger picture etc. Sometimes the departments can even dislike each other, so good luck trying to bring in the outsider perspective that way.

On the other hand both are really specialized fields, with vastly different skills and perspectives. And a purpose of a company is supposed to facilitate the division of labor. You are programming the Engine, security is the contractor's or the IT department's job.

On the executive level good luck pushing through an expense that is not required by law, not mandated by the current culture or management fad. Making yourself secure against an unlikely freak accident where failure is not that drastic is simply not considered because it won't affect the stock price or move more units. Which is fine until somebody clicks on an email and you find a critical part of your infrastructure killed by ransomware or something. I mean it's enough if you are small machine shop and some Russian kid just make sure your CNC machine can't function. You don't even have the resources or importance to chase hackers.

Spoiler: autism

I am frankly surprised that there wasn't a big smart phone virus so far. Normalfags don't turn off their bluetooth, WIFI or NFC on their phone, ever, while giving all the permissions to an app if it is asking for it. Imagine letting lose a virus in a big city. A lot of people don't even have desktops, bricking their phone or tablet would cut them off from the world. Hell, many people don't have their contacts anywhere else etc. You could basically wipe their minds and cripple them. lol

Actually, considering they don't turn off their GPS either a military could simply brick phones in an area so they don't have to deal with people filming them and providing open source intel.

 

[Dysnomia]

Human Intelligence just works.

On one hand, I can say that generally people are only caring about their own position and specialization. Rarely looking at the bigger picture etc. Sometimes the departments can even dislike each other, so good luck trying to bring in the outsider perspective that way.

On the other hand both are really specialized fields, with vastly different skills and perspectives. And a purpose of a company is supposed to facilitate the division of labor. You are programming the Engine, security is the contractor's or the IT department's job.

On the executive level good luck pushing through an expense that is not required by law, not mandated by the current culture or management fad. Making yourself secure against an unlikely freak accident where failure is not that drastic is simply not considered because it won't affect the stock price or move more units. Which is fine until somebody clicks on an email and you find a critical part of your infrastructure killed by ransomware or something. I mean it's enough if you are small machine shop and some Russian kid just make sure your CNC machine can't function. You don't even have the resources or importance to chase hackers.

Spoiler: autism

I am frankly surprised that there wasn't a big smart phone virus so far. Normalfags don't turn off their bluetooth, WIFI or NFC on their phone, ever, while giving all the permissions to an app if it is asking for it. Imagine letting lose a virus in a big city. A lot of people don't even have desktops, bricking their phone or tablet would cut them off from the world. Hell, many people don't have their contacts anywhere else etc. You could basically wipe their minds and cripple them. lol

Actually, considering they don't turn off their GPS either a military could simply brick phones in an area so they don't have to deal with people filming them and providing open source intel.

This is why I'm going to miss my current old people flip phone that does basically nothing. It's 3g so....

I feel like the average person these days is a hell of a lot more tech illiterate than people were back in the internet Wild West. No one knows how to do anything besides tap an app. And half the time they screw that up too.

No one keeps an address book anymore. My aunt's phone died and she had to use my uncle's phone to call people and get a detailed list of the numbers she lost. All avoidable just by writing things down.

There are people who will lose all their family photos if anything happens to their phone or tablet because they didn't store them anywhere else.

Anyway, glad to see someone fucked with EA. Even if it's something as boring as FIFA source code and some other data.

 

[James Roancrest]

I wouldn't be surprised if the hack was social engineering, e.g., phishing.

 

[Blamo]

There are people who will lose all their family photos if anything happens to their phone or tablet because they didn't store them anywhere else.

Many people's whole memories will be gone if they get banned from facebook for some reason.

This is why I'm going to miss my current old people flip phone that does basically nothing. It's 3g so....

It would be an interesting Hobby Electronics project trying to make a dumb phone 4/5G compatible.

I feel like the average person these days is a hell of a lot more tech illiterate than people were back in the internet Wild West. No one knows how to do anything besides tap an app. And half the time they screw that up too.

It reminds me of this. Fisher price computing.

No one keeps an address book anymore. My aunt's phone died and she had to use my uncle's phone to call people and get a detailed list of the numbers she lost. All avoidable just by writing things down.

As much as I wanted everything to be digitized in the 00s, I grew to love and respect paper. It can be good for long term back up.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I feel like the average person these days is a hell of a lot more tech illiterate than people were back in the internet Wild West.

And computer users back in the late 1970s to early 1980s were even more tech savvy, since OSes were stuff like DOS or various forms of BASIC. That began to change with the GUI that Apple popularized in 1984.

Looks like people really do get less tech savvy the more tech is developed because "user friendly"...

 

[LullerDerbyRollin]

Welp, EA can't fuck up both Titanfalls and Apex Legends servers any more than they do now. So I lose nothing I guess, would be nice if they took the time "improving security" since EA Desktop breaks when I click a TF2 video.

 

[Pissmaster]

How the fuck have all these leaks come from huge game companies, but Konami's still secure?

 

[DoNotReadTheFinePrint]

EA deserves this. And considering what was taken, I doubt the hackers were after any player data.

The best way to keep stuff from being hacked is to have it either offline or in it's own secure network but I guess having something like this and enough people to manage/repair it was deemed too expensive. Cooperations and governments always cut cost at the wrong places.

It is just a lovely idea to think that somebody could just access it (perhaps no need for a hack, because it could be badly protected by default like those over-the-internet baby listening devices.) and just set it on fire by making it too hot. The end user already can't handle security with his online services and few computers he own, let alone a complex grid of IOT devices. Heck for a so called technologically savvy civilization the normal folk thinks electricity is magic which is really just some dumb circuitry.

A big red flag is that smart TVs became the norm. Can you even buy a non-smart TV?

This also plays into the more disposable/you will rent everything economy. With software updates you can just trick things being less effective and less being able be repaired.
You won't even be access the software running because it's proprietary.

Imagine if our current engineering was done to make products that last, not products that you will need to throw away. And they will somehow say that buying a toaster every second software update is somehow good for the planet.


After the smart lightbulb, it's not outlandish. Gotta have an app on my surveillance device to turn on the lights.
Can't wait to having to throw away the "smart" house tech in the house every X years because the new phone OS is not compatible with the apps controlling said devices etc.

I might be a bit naive since I don't own anything related to the smart home-stuff, but if those devices use the WIFI I use for my internet wouldn't not giving those monsters the password help avoid big brother? Then again I can see a smart fridge refusing to cool stuff because it can't connect to the Internet.

As for the phone OS, I would keep an old/extra smartphone with the OS the stuff works with, turn off the auto-update, and demote it to expensive remote.

Over all, this whole smart home shit is annoying , stupid and dangerous but the majority of people are just too lazy and, in many cases, too stupid to realise they're selling their soul to someone worse then the devil.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

How the fuck have all these leaks come from huge game companies, but Konami's still secure?

Nobody is interested in robbing Konami, Konami is boring.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It shouldn't be a surprise if even one country has a nuclear arsenal that's connected to the internet.

Pakistan doesn't have internet, that's why you can call them goat sucking sister fucking bastards and they won't ever know.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Pakistan doesn't have internet

Pakistan is pretty far down the list.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Pakistan is pretty far down the list.

Listen, a bunch of doctoral students in geologogy came here from Pakistan and on the first day I saw them rush towards a bus that stopped at a red light, some of them was petting it and one was trying to feed it a carrot. You're telling me these people have computers AND the internet? it was a Sonnen joke

 

[Antarctic Hellbeast]

So BF 2142 remake confirmed or nah?

 

[Dom Cruise]

Good! EA sucks fat dicks.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

How the fuck have all these leaks come from huge game companies, but Konami's still secure?

or Rockstar, since they can't communicate with customers

 

[Beresford's Whip]

I might be a bit naive since I don't own anything related to the smart home-stuff, but if those devices use the WIFI I use for my internet wouldn't not giving those monsters the password help avoid big brother? Then again I can see a smart fridge refusing to cool stuff because it can't connect to the Internet.

A few years back there was an issue with sets from one of the smart tv manufacturers, if it couldn't get an internet connection on your wifi, it would automatically attempt to connect to any open network it could find so it could send data. I could see that coming back as a feature, they'd market it as some kind of "we make sure your television is always connected to ensure that you always have access to all your smart features."