Facepalm: The hackers responsible for the recent data breach involving Electronic Arts accept divulged how they did the human action. A representative for the hacking group told Motherboard they got the ball rolling by purchasing stolen cookies online for merely $ten. Ouch.

From there, the hackers were able to use the cookies to proceeds admission to a Slack channel used by EA employees.

Once on Slack, ane of the hackers messaged an EA IT back up member and explained that they had lost their phone at a party the night earlier. They were successful in getting a multifactor hallmark token that gave them access to EA'southward corporate network (this apparently worked twice, the rep said).

With access to EA'southward network, the hackers located a service for developers compiling games that they were able to log into. Creating a virtual machine reportedly gave them even more visibility on the network, allowing them to access some other service and download game source code.

Motherboard said the rep provided screenshots to back up their story, including images of the Slack chats. When Motherboard reached out to EA, a rep "confirmed to Motherboard the contours of the description of the breach given by the hackers."

Motherboard said yesterday that the hackers made away with roughly 780GB of data including the source lawmaking for FIFA 21 and code related to the Frostbite engine.

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