UPDATED 21:36 EDT / NOVEMBER 25 2018

SECURITY

Rapper Drake becomes the latest victim of a Fortnite hack

As the most popular online game of all time, Fortnite continues to attract hackers — the latest case involving the takeover of the rapper Drake’s account.

Aubrey Drake Graham, a Canadian rapper best known as Drake is, arguably, one of the most popular rappers of the 2010s and he’s also known to do good deeds for charity, including playing Fortnite.

The drama started with an online streamer called Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who was attempting to raise money for the Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund via a Twitch live stream. The person who took over Drake’s account —  Duddus647 — joined, with Ninja noting that “I’m not sure if Drake meant to invite me.”

The Fortnite game progressed with the hacked account using racial slurs before Ninja noted that “that’s not Drake” and cut the stream. “I’ll be sending [Drake] a message and letting him know, that his account was hacked,” Ninja noted. “I’m going to report that guy to Epic and hopefully they can do something pretty serious about that.”

At this stage, it’s not clear how the account was hacked or who was behind it, although Ninja said that he believes that the hacker is based in Europe and hacked the account through a personal computer.

Fortnite has been targeted by hackers before, and as long as it remains highly popular, will likely be targeted again.

Security researchers warned in June that hackers were targeting Fortnite users with fake Android apps, and a report in October noted that the number of scams targeting the game was also breaking records. Players have also been targeted with data-stealing malware that aims, among other things, to steal bitcoin account details.

Despite the fake Drake drama, Ninja went on to raise $52,000 for Ellen’s charity, which according to its website was “established to support global conservation efforts for critically endangered species.”

Image: Epic Games

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