EA under fire after leaking personal info of FIFA players and personalities [UPDATED] FIFAElectronic Arts have come under fire for accidentally leaking the personal information of thousands of FIFA players, pros and streamers. UPDATE: Oct 3 at 10:25 PST EA has responded to the \u201cpotential issue\u201d affecting their registration page, and has taken down the site while they investigate the cause of the problem. We’re aware of a potential issue affecting the registration page for the EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Global Series that went live earlier today. We take these matters seriously, and we immediately took down the page while we investigate the matter. We’ll share updates as soon as possible. \u2014 EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) October 3, 2019 While the company looks into the matter, they asked for the community to report any \u201cpotential security issues in EA\u2019s games and services to secure@ea.com. Original story as follows\u2026 On Thursday, October 3, EA Sports announced this season\u2019s FIFA Global Series \u2013 the competitive circuit that leads players to the FIFA eWorld Cup. A link was provided to allow players to register for qualification, and this is where the problems started. Before long, it became clear that EA was having some serious issues with registration, as players found they were already being provided with login information \u2013 and not their own. As evidenced in the tweet below, when players tried to register on the site, they were instead given registration information of players who had already registered \u2013 including some notable names in the community. \u201cMy friend got a big pull in the Data Breach pack, Hashtag\u2019s own Algerian Arrow, @YaniOurabah. We\u2019ll send you a birthday card. What a mess.\u201d My friend got a big pull in the Data Breach pack, Hashtag’s own Algerian Arrow, @YaniOurabah. We’ll send you a birthday card. What a mess. pic.twitter.com\/IYMT1ieq4g \u2014 George Hughes (@GeorgeHughes) October 3, 2019 A number of high profile pros and community members were affected by the leak, including professional FIFA player for Ajax, Joey \u2018Joey\u2019 Calabro. Coincidentally, his details were allegedly shown to fellow pro Bruno, a Brazilian player who represents SPQR. It appears registration is no longer available on the website, as EA is working to address the issue. A number of notable players and personalities spoke out about the issue, dismayed that it could even happen. Kurt \u201cKurt0411\u201d Fenech was very direct in his feelings about EA and the accident. Meanwhile, FIFA YouTuber Reev simply said \u201cYikes\u201d before making a joke of the situation, saying it was \u201cprobably Jeff on live chat who came up with the idea to leak everyone\u2019s details\u201d. Big yikes from EA. I bet it was Jeff on live chat who came up with the idea to leak everyone’s details. He’s already given imposters my details once or twice before. \u2014 Reev (@TheReevHD) October 3, 2019 EA has had a strained relationship with its consumers in recent years \u2013 most notably with the release of Star Wars Battlefront II, in which they managed to write the most downvoted comment in Reddit history when addressing microtransactions and the difficulty of unlocking certain characters. Hopefully, this issue will be sorted quickly and measures will be taken to prevent another data breach occurring in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA under fire after leaking personal info of FIFA players and personalities [UPDATED] FIFAElectronic Arts have come under fire for accidentally leaking the personal information of thousands of FIFA players, pros and streamers. UPDATE: Oct 3 at 10:25 PST EA has responded to the \u201cpotential issue\u201d affecting their registration page, and has taken down the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}