Fortnite, Paragon: Epic asks players to change their password

Many users of Epic Games games are currently facing hacker attacks. Criminals have obtained unauthorized access to various user accounts and made purchases through the third-party accounts. Now the developer specifically calls players from Fortnite and Paragon to change their password promptly. We summarize the information.

Epic Games warns of a rapidly increasing number of hacker attacks on its users' accounts. The developer's security team recently discovered the problem, but according to the studio's community team, the vulnerability would not be in their own system. Instead, it seems to be particularly affecting users who use the same password for their Epic Games account as they do for other services - a mistake that should always be avoided. It is believed that hackers gain access to these services and ultimately gain access to accounts at Epic Games. For this reason, the US developer now asks his customers to change the passwords for their accounts. Especially players of the popular co-op title and PUBG competitorsFortnite and the Free2Play MOBAs Paragon are affected.

Epic Games also suggests using the HaveIBeenPwned page to verify that your email address and password appear in hacker databases. Incidentally, even if you do not play Fortnite or Paragon and you only have one account for another Epic Games game, it can not hurt to update your password for safety. Be sure to choose a unique and sufficiently complex password - you do not have to make it easier for hackers than you need. Incidentally, it was recently announced that Epic Games will completely discontinue Paragon on April 26, 2018 . To counteract the disappointment of the fans, the developer offers the players a full refund of all Paragon purchases on each platform.