The publisher of the FIFA series of games – EA Sports has released a statement in which it tries to answer players’ questions. They concern numerous attempts and successful hacking into accounts of FIFA Ultimate Team game mode users.

Hackers attack FIFE

Everyone who has played FUT mode knows that it has been going strong for several years the problem of numerous scams and hacker attacks on player accounts. The aim of such operations is to steal coins and players’ cards collected in the club assigned to a given account.

EA Sports of course, it has to be said that it has consistently increased the safety of players over the years. However, these attempts prove ineffective as the hacker problem persists. Players of the latest installment of the series, i.e. FIFA 22, fall victim to a new method invented by cheaters from around the globe.

The new “scam” is surprisingly simple. It consists in the fact that scammers enter the EA Sports support website and simply start a chat with the appropriate department in the world. By impersonating real players, they want to change the email address associated with their account. The next step is to gain access to user profiles on PlayStation and Xbox. The practice has become so common that even well-known streamers are suffering from it. The greatest of them they have already lost millions of coinsand EA Sports doesn’t seem to be in too much of a rush to fix the problem.

As a result of conversations between the various parties that suffered from the attacks, they managed to get away from EA Sports statement. It must be objectively admitted that it is not very comforting for the victims. Here is its content:

We have already been informed about the recent hacker attempts. An investigation into this is currently underway.

EA: “We’ve been made aware of recent account takeover attempts and are currently investigating.”

– David Purcell (@ DavidPurcell96) January 7, 2022

The announcement may not introduce radical changes in the matter, but on the other hand it gives a glimmer of hope that the problem will be finally corrected. Many previous examples show us that players who have suffered from attacks they often eventually recover stolen cards, but not coins.

Dissatisfaction among players of the EA Sports title is growing rapidly and is not excluded legal solutions to the dispute. Many users who lose their earned coins decide to convert their value into real money.

Source: Dexerto