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Epic Games hit with class action suit over Fortnite security breach

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Dissent

James Brightman reports:

Fortnite has been a wild ride for Epic Games and has taken the entire industry by storm. Its audience, however, may have gotten more than it bargained for when it learned at the start of the year that a massive security breach potentially exposed credit card data, personal information, and even voice chat audio of anyone registered for the game, which at the time was more than 200 million people.

And where there’s a breach, there’s a class-action lawsuit, right? Read Brightman’s report on one that has been filed.

Read more on Yahoo! Finance.

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