Epic Games Store lacks basic email verification, allows anyone to sign up using your email address

According to a Reddit post, Epic Games Store lacks bare essentials when it comes to safeguarding user accounts. A Reddit user who goes by screen name -dov- has alleged that Epic Games Store doesn’t validate email dress when users create accounts.

As matter of fact, email verification is least one can expect when y sign up for any online services on Internet. whole idea behind email verifications process is to prevent mischievous people from using your email dress to sign up for any online services.

-dov- claims to have discovered fraudulent accounts using two of ir email dresses while signing up on Epic Games Store and -dov- asserts y did t receive any verification emails eir. Even after creating a new account, -dov- says he did t receive a verification email.

We have verified claims me by -dov-, and to our surprise, those claims are indeed true. After we signed up for Epic Games Store account, we did t receive any communication from m. 

“I cant believe a multi-billion dollar company doesn't even have that basic of a security step for ir customers,” said -dov- in ir Reddit post.

However, -dov-  is t alone. In fact, many users have commented on Reddit complaining about issue.

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ding fuel to fire, moderators have labelled post as “Misleing.”

“If some people are getting validation emails, great. But I never did to two accounts that were being squatted on by fraudulent users or when I created a new account with a third email to test it,” -dov- ded.

Launched in December 2018, Epic Games Store competes with Valve’s Steam in video game distribution market. Epic Games Store offers many exclusive titles. It has me quite a name for itself in a short time span, courtesy of various deals and offers.