If you like to regularly consume the streams or other content of the many great content creators of the FIFA scene, you will have already stumbled across the current hacking issue. Whether ‘Trymacs’, ‘FUT Donkey’, ‘Bateson87’, ‘TisiSchubecH’ or ‘Nick RunTheFutMarket’ – various tone-setting opinion makers have become victims of illegal account takeovers in the past weeks

The German streamer ‘Trymacs’ has even been caught twice, his live reaction at the second hack showed almost only resignation. EA SPORTS had still fully refunded the first incident, but could not prevent a new theft afterwards. Real precautions for increased security have not been communicated so far, instead there is a thin status report on the situation.

2FA is also bypassed

“Our teams are currently investigating the takeover attempts. We are trying to find out what exactly happened in each of these cases,” says community manager Shelden Rogers in the latest edition of the EA show “Top Bins”. This is already followed by the measures that FUT players themselves can take to secure their account – set out in a link to the EA Help article.

The fact that in the case of ‘Trymacs’ even a two-factor authentication (2FA) had not prevented the hackers from stealing his FUT content remains unmentioned – as well as apologies or explanations of the procedure. The FIFA scene also lives from its streamers and content creators, whose lives and work are being made significantly more difficult right now

Accusation of indifference

“Such a thin statement is okay after hours, not days. Is that bad,” analyst and trader ‘TimKalation’ commented on the EA announcement via Twitter. FIFA-Caster Konni Winkler pushes into the same horn: “You just don’t believe it. With so much money so bad management. So many mistakes.” The developer is accused of indifference to the hacks in the social networks.

In the meantime, a petition is already circulating that calls on EA SPORTS to address the issue more viscerally and improve the customer service system. More than 3,200 signatures have collected the petition in the first four days, the next target is set at 5,000. The video game giant would be well advised to take the concerns of the community and its strongest unofficial gaming ambassadors seriously