Epic Games forum is offline after hackers managed to compromise the forum, and may now have their. usernames, email addresses, passwords, and dates of birth. Hackers may even have read private messages that you exchanged on the forum. The forum is resetting passwords and (hopefully) improving their security. It’s possible that software being used to run the forum was not being properly maintained with updates, and that the hackers were able to. exploit a vulnerability to gain access to the forum software.”]