Epic Games is suing Hayden Cohen, better known in the Fortnite community as the leaker AdiraFNInfo, for leaking a number of Fortnite collaborations in January and February. Unlike most Fortnite leakers, who typically datamine the game files for info, or receive info from a third party, Cohen was a contractor at Epic who signed a non-disclosure agreement.
Epic didn’t claim any specific amount in damages in the filing, which you can read here, but it claims that it experienced “harm to its partner relationships, diminished player engagement, lost profits, and costs incurred in investigating and responding to Defendant’s unauthorized disclosures.”
The situation with Cohen is very unusual. Upcoming Fortnite collaborations are leaked all the time, but it’s typically because a leaker will find something in the game files that Epic failed to properly hide, or because an insider passed them info. That gives public-facing leakers like Shiina and HypeX journalistic legal protections as long as they didn’t actively help their insider steal private data.
