More than 2 billion breached Fortnite accounts have gone up for sale in underground forums so far in 2020 alone.
“The market for stolen account sales is much larger than just the gaming industry…However, from our research, the black market for the buying and selling of stolen Fortnite accounts is among the most expansive, and also the most lucrative,” said researchers with Night Lion Security in a report last week.
The value of a hacked Fortnite account is centralized around a character’s in-game “skin” (essentially a digital costume), researchers said. Players of the game can purchase these in-game accessories using Fortnite’s currency, called V-Bucks. Some of the skins are rare and worth a lot of money; for instance, the “Recon Expert” skin is one of the most valuable, averaging roughly $2,500 per account.
These Fortnite accounts are initially hacked via simple brute force and password cracking: Username-and-password combinations can be extracted from data breaches of other companies, and checked against Fortnite accounts, as many people reuse passwords.

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