Eric Milam | Source | Research Lead at BlackBerry
Eric Milam
Recognized industry-wide for team leadership excellence, spear phishing innovation, and efficiency gains, I’m passionate about process improvement. With extensive information security, cybersecurity, and incident response expertise and a track record of increasingly responsible promotions, I excel at building out new and overhauling troubled teams.
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Hackers selling access to FIFA matchmaking servers and other games after EA attack | ZDNet
According to a message from attackers, 780 GB were stolen from EA during the hack.
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EA was probably targeted because saying you hacked EA is like saying you hacked Blizzard. With the source code of multiple video games, the attackers could compile and sell a game before it comes out, as well as add their own backdoors to certain games. Something like this would give them access to a lot of computers. Source code allows for review of everything that's there without the need to reverse engineer. The source code could also help them understand the type of security around information and payment exchanges. The source code could contain hardcoded credentials, keys, etc which can be used elsewhere or allow additional remote code capabilities.
