A « representative » for the EA hackers involved say the heist took $10, a bit of code, and a lot of slacking.
After reports broke yesterday about a whopping 780GB of data being swiped from the gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA), we already know how the heist was pulled off, at least according to the hackers’ telling. A “representative for the hackers” told Motherboard on Friday that the scheme was actually pretty simple: They allegedly started by buying stolen cookies online for $10 each, and then used those to get access to one of EA’s corporate Slack channels. Apparently, EA’s Slack etiquette isn’t the most secure—we’ve previously seen researchers discover a former engineer for the company leaving the names of EA’s corporate Slack channels in a public code repo.
