I wonder if any of this came from the source leak they had in 2022. At that time, i worked for EA and it was a HUGE BIG deal. Someone bought a slack token off the dark web for like 10 bucks then social engineered their way into the network. Stole FIFA and battlefield source along with some frostbite source code. It was something like 750 gigs in total. Since each title is basically a branch of the previous game, it's a pretty big deal. Lol
https://therecord.media/hackers-leak-full-ea-data-after-failed-extortion-attempt
The article describes there was no player data, and of course there wasn't, that's not how EA works. All player data is stored externally from the titles and they all connect to a separate server. I find it odd that EA would be like, no big deal externally. It was a pretty big deal.