Epic Games is suing a major Fortnite leaker who, it turns out, actually worked for the company. Hayden Cohen, known online as AdiraFN or AdiraFNInfo, was contracted by Epic to work on projects as an Associate Producer. Epic claims that Cohen violated his NDA by leaking “trade secrets.”
Epic filed a legal complaint against Cohen on Thursday in the Eastern District of North Carolina. According to the company, Cohen signed an NDA on September 11, 2025, but proceeded to publicly share confidential information in January and February. According to Epic’s court filing, “[Cohen]’s leaks were only possible because he abused the access he was granted to this information as part of his work for Epic and willfully disregarded his obligations to keep the information confidential.”
The AdiraFNInfo X account had more than 13,000 followers before it was deactivated. According to a Reddit user’s screenshot of Cohen’s LinkedIn before it was taken down, Cohen previously worked for several other major companies, including American Express, AMC, Peacock, and NBC Sports.
Epic alleges that the leaks, which were made possible through insider access, included reveals of then-unannounced collaborations with South Park and Solo Leveling.
When Epic identified Cohen, the company sent him a cease and desist on February 20, 2026. Epic claims that, as of Thursday, Cohen has “failed to fully comply” with Epic’s demands.
Other popular Fortnite leakers like Shiina and HypeX are not facing legal consequences from Epic because they get their information through data mining, which is a legal practice. Epic claims, “[The information leaked by Cohen] could not have been obtained through any legitimate means and was not otherwise available to the public (such as through data mining public builds of Fortnite for unreleased content). [Cohen] leaked Epic’s confidential trade secret information that was accessible to him solely because he worked on projects for Epic, and his corresponding access to Epic’s internal systems and channels.”
Was it all worth it, just so people could find out about Fortnite collabs a day early? That’s for Cohen to reckon with now.
