In Fortnite: Battle Royale there are currently teenagers with hacking tools on the loose. They are targeting your accounts and selling them for a lot of money. But you can protect yourself.
What is happening in Fortnite right now? Fortnite accounts still remain a good source of income for hackers. They are getting younger by the day. In an interview with the British broadcaster BBC, 20 teenage hackers have reported about their dark trade.
One of the hackers claims that he was once hacked himself and needed a new account. That’s how he got into the hacker scene, and he was shown how to steal accounts using easily obtainable tools.
Hacker earns nearly £2000 in a few weeks
Here’s how hackers make a lot of money: In just one day, the newly minted hacker was able to take over around 1,000 Fortnite accounts. Those are worth good money online. You can get anywhere from a few cents to hundreds of euros for them.
The hacker reportedly earned £1,500 (1,665 euros) in just a few weeks.
Another hacker, a 17-year-old from Slovenia, allegedly earned around £16,000 (17,760 euros) in seven months.
Why are accounts worth so much money? The most valuable accounts have tons of cool and rare skins. Accounts with a good win rate are also in demand. The hackers then take over the accounts, immediately activate two-factor authentication, and lock out the original owners.
Here are the protective measures
How to protect yourself? Fortunately, there is good protection against such attacks. According to the hackers, it is extremely difficult to hack an account that already uses two-factor authentication.
Since hackers seem to target easy prey, they are likely to try their luck on other, less secure accounts if you have this protection active.
Here’s how to activate this double protection:
