Accounts of Top FIFA 22 Gamers Hijacked in Hacking Wave
The FIFA game franchise, enjoyed by millions of gamers worldwide, isn’t just about breaking controllers and tantrums anymore. For some, it’s also about breaking into accounts. Over the last few weeks, several high-profile FIFA 22 players, streamers, and traders have vented on Twitter, saying their EA accounts were hijacked, and they lost control over their FIFA 22 Ultimate Team clubs.
Players like Bateson87, NickRTFM, Trymacs, TisiSchubecH, FUT FG, FUT Donkey, JoaoSeleiro, narcoinsfc, and lNoahHDl say that hackers are using the game’s leaderboard to identify top players, then social-engineer EA’s customer support system to claim it’s their account. Although such actions normally require additional authentication, in some cases they were apparently eluded, allowing accounts to be hijacked.
EA Sports said it’s investigating the reports and, in the meantime, advises all gamers to activate multi-factor authentication to protect their accounts.
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