

Twitter has yet to take down either of the hacker’s own accounts. The hacker seems to have been locked out the account now, but we’ll continue to update the story as Epic Games speaks out about this incident. This day has certainly turned out to be an exciting one to say the least. This should not be happening at a multi-billion dollar company. Someone at Epic is about to get fired or at least get a very stern course of internet security. A popular app/site used by many companies to tweet out content from several accounts. YmiJRceqWV- Lucas7yoshi_ // Fortnite BR Leaks & News April 3, 2019Īccording to leaker the hack might have been possible through Tweetdeck. Like me with TECHNICALLY someone hacked an employee, who had tweetdeck access. Judging by the fact they were tweeting from TweetDeck, they probably got into some employees account that has access to it, as one account can have control over all others That said, we do not think Epic Game will cave into the community’s requests now as it would mean giving the hacker what they wanted. The stretched res change will severely degrade the performance for pros at the World Cup and the timing was ridiculous. While we do not condone such illegal actions in any way, the reason behind the hacks seems to be fairly logical. Read more: Competitive Fortnite State of Development.Epic Game announced earlier today that they will restricting usage of stretched res right before the Fortnite World Cup. The hack continued with tweets about reverting the patch, using creator codes of the hacker, and other non-sensical tweets.įeared, by no coincidence, a stretched res player. Truly mindblowing stuff! A secondary account of the hacker – via Twitter Here’s the first tweet from the disaster for Epic Games: Yeah…Įpic Game started to quickly and frantically delete the tweets as they flew up, but the hacker even got to shout himself out before they were closed out from the account. In short, this is a complete and utter disaster for Epic Games. The hack seems to be in response also to the controversial v8.20 Fortnite patch. The account started to tweet out…interesting messages following the announcement for changes to competitive Fortnite. Read more: Ninja rage quits Fortnite and hits out at Epic Games over v8.20 changes.Epic Games has not released a statement yet about the situation. On Wednesday, April 3, the official Fortnite Twitter got hacked by a disgruntled member of the community. Well, it appears that the hate for Epic Games’ recent decisions has led to some individual taking inappropriate measures against the official Fortnite Twitter account. Epic Games has yet to comment on the situation. We’ve got the screenshots of the events saved down below. Update: It appears that the hacker has been effectively locked out of the Fortnite Twitter account for now.
