Epic Games employee reportedly fed information to Fortnite leakers

Some controversy has arisen in the Fortnite community, but this time it revolves around the game’s developers. In the past, we’ve seen professional Fortnite players and other members of the scene be in the limelight for the wrong reasons. However, Epic Games is in the spotlight now. More specifically, an unnamed employee of Epic Games is. It’s reported that this employee has been feeding information to prominent leakers in the community. Apparently, this information involves mainly cosmetic items like future Item Shops and even encrypted skins.

Epic Games employee comes under fire

While no official sources have confirmed these reports, several members of the Fortnite community have come forward. This includes leakers and data-miners who could have potentially received the early information.

According to the accusations, the Epic Games employee in question would send emails containing future content to leakers. While we don’t know the full extent of this exchange, the employee is being accused of revealing future Item Shops, exclusive skins, and even Fortnite updates. Fortnite news channel @HappyPower was among the first to break the story.

RIP to an Epic Games employee soon 💀 Man Is about to be sued even more than the chapter 2 map leaker

— MSF Happy Power (@HappyPower) July 4, 2020

Sorry just got home, a person (still unsure exactly who) working for epic games has been giving leakers tons of leaks, and even giving out AES keys to certain skins that are encrypted. That's how most leakers have dates to, updates, youtuber skins, itemshops, and things like that

— MSF Happy Power (@HappyPower) July 4, 2020

Obviously, these are huge accusations to make. Epic Games has every right to sue this employee if the reports turn out accurate. The company went a similar route when a certain individual leaked the Fortnite Chapter 2 map ahead of its big reveal.

At this time, there’s currently not much else in terms of information. From the sounds of it, though, this story is nowhere near finished. If Fortnite leakers themselves are coming forward, then this story is probably accurate. Of course, we can’t know anything until Epic Games releases some kind of statement, which has not occurred at the time of writing. There’s currently no time table for when this will happen, either.

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