Cyberattack traffic targeting the video game industry outpaced all other industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Akamai Technologies tracked 246,064,297 web app attacks on the gaming industry globally, representing about 4 percent of the 6.3 billion attacks the company tracked over 2020. Credential-stuffing attacks also burgeoned, up 224 percent over 2019. The report referred to estimates from analytics firm Newzoo that the global gaming market will hit $175 billion in 2021.
Source: https://threatpost.com/attackers-gaming-industry/167183/