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by bpicolo 2994 days ago
> Brute force attack on an account with known email address

Yup. These days I get a ton of break-in attempts for random accounts. My Epic Games account is disabled weekly due to failed login attempts from random actors.

Use a password manager and 2fa folks!
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ReverseCold 2994 days ago
> My Epic Games account is disabled weekly due to failed login attempts from random actors.

Everyone has this (source: some thread on Reddit with a bunch of "me too" answers). It's a bug with their system and I don't think they know about it/care/(?)

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bpicolo 2994 days ago
> It's a bug with their system

Confident about that? It's certainly not the only service I get break in attempts on, fwiw

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ReverseCold 2993 days ago
Well first of all, someone else knowing your username should not be able to lock you out of your account. So even if it isn't a bug it's bad design.

It looks like you can still sign in even if your account is "locked" which further adds to the theory that it is a bug.

Here are a few threads with a bunch of "me too"s. [0][1]

[0] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/battle-royale/roya... [1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/forums/battle-royale/roya...

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