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Last week, reports broke that Fortnite maker Epic Games had allegedly been the victim of a hack<\/a>, with a supposed ransomware group claiming it had snagged 200 gigabytes of internal data. Almost immediately, however, Epic announced that it had no evidence any such hack had taken place. Now, it turns out that the <\/a>supposed\u2026<\/p>\n

Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – kotaku.com<\/p>\n

All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, reports broke that Fortnite maker Epic Games had allegedly been the victim of a hack, with a supposed ransomware group claiming it had snagged 200 gigabytes of internal data. Almost immediately, however, Epic announced that it had no evidence any such hack had taken place. Now, it turns out that the supposed\u2026 Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44976,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4743,1442,405],"class_list":["post-44975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-broke","tag-reports","tag-week"],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018Criminal Geniuses\u2019 Admit Fortnite Hack Was A Total Hoax | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View \u2018Criminal Geniuses\u2019 Admit Fortnite Hack Was A Total Hoax for free, here on XtremeServers. 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