That means someone else is trying very hard to get in, and now no one has access.
“Your Epic Games account has been locked due to multiple invalid login attempts,” the launcher will tell players. Fraudulent card charges, sometimes totaling hundreds of dollars, seem to be a relatively common complaint among those who find themselves with hacked accounts.
Players reporting compromised accounts have become something of a trend on the game’s subreddit, in fact. Fortnite has become one of the most popular games in the world, and that sort of ubiquity can make any game a target for hackers who want to exploit a system’s weaknesses.