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Being Epic, of course there's an example already: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-12-epic-games-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-hacked-fortnite-ac
by dylz 6y ago
Being Epic, of course there's an example already: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-12-epic-games-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-hacked-fortnite-accounts https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-12-epic-games-hit...
> The law firm reported that Epic was notified about the security issue back in November 2018, but didn't acknowledge the problem until two months later.
> The data breach occurred back in January this year, when hackers found a flaw in Fortnite's login system, allowing them to impersonate players and purchase V-Bucks with the bank information attached to their accounts.
Epic is truly not a company you want to be supporting in this. I am not an Apple fan (I have a phone from all major mobile OSes), but Epic is truly abhorrent and stands for everything you do not want sticking their fingers into everything.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games_launcher_appears_to_collect_your_steam/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games...
They've refused to pay out newly-introduced bug bounties over mass hijackings of their subdomains, do sketchy spyware-like stuff with their software running on your machine, collect data without consent, etc. Even if you hate Apple's stance on IAP, this is absolutely not a big guy vs little guy fight.