Report any leakage of bank data and private messages from Fortnite actors – 2/13/2019

A series of vulnerabilities in the video game system Fornite, the Royal Battle of Epic Game that fires the rage among young players, apparently allowed the pirates could access users' personal information, Which led Facua-Consumidores en Acción to denounce the developer before the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).

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FACUA announced in an official statement that she had presented a complaint against the American company Epic Games in front of the AEPD for a possible leakage of user data from his Fortnite video game, due to a series of vulnerabilities present in the game.

These existing errors were revealed by the cybersecurity company CheckPoint, and allow third parties to access the personal information of users, including bank details and private conversations who stayed in the game.

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Anyone who clicks on a fraudulent link this simulated as a video game – what is called a "phishing attack" – would have left all their information exposed, due to a failure related to unique identifiers, also "tokens", of Access to their account.

In case the AEPD considers the complaint valid, Epic Games could be fined up to 20 million euros, as established by European regulation 2016/679, quoted by the Spanish agency. The badociation, for its part, said that the breach of the data protection regulations had a "big scale" since it affects a game with millions of players around the world .