CD Projekt Red has been victimized by a hacker’s cyberattack. Hackers allege that they broke into the company’s internal servers and stole data such as the source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, as well as materials containing internal secrets.
CD Projekt RedOfficial TwitterAnnounced this at. According to the tweet, some of the devices in the company’s network were encrypted, but the backup data was spared. Hackers have left a ransom text, and CD Projekt Red has posted this text on Twitter as well. According to the text, hackers are stealing source code for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, Gwent Witcher Card Game, and the unreleased version of The Witcher 3.
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In addition, the hacker says he has obtained data from the company’s “all accounting, management, legal, human resources, and IR materials.” At the end of the text, it says, “Give me 48 hours,” and if I don’t follow it, “sell or leak all of the source code and send the material to game media personnel.”
Hackers seem to think that leaking this information would further reduce the image of CD Projekt Red, and if they do not respond, CD Projekt Red “turns out how terrible the company is, investors lose credibility, stocks. Will go down even further. “
CD Projekt Red has already secured the IT infrastructure and has begun data recovery. The company also says it will not respond to ransom demands or negotiations, even if it leads to data disclosure. In addition, as far as we know at this stage, personal information of users and players has not been stolen at all.
CD Projekt Red has already contacted law enforcement agencies, personal data protection agencies and IT forensics experts and is continuing its investigation.
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