Ransomware became an increasingly dire threat throughout 2020, as hackers continued to target hospitals and health care providers in the midst of a pandemic. A smaller trend has also been brewing over the last few months as well, with a rash of attacks on video game companies including Ubisoft, Capcom, and Crytek. Now the developer CD Projekt Red, which released the maligned blockbuster Cyberpunk 2077 in December, is the latest target.
On Tuesday, CD Projekt Red revealed that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack. “Some of our internal systems have been compromised,” the company said in a statement posted to Twitter. The attackers encrypted some computers and stole data, but CD Projekt Red said it would not pay the ransom and that it was restoring its systems from backups. The incident comes as CD Projekt Red faces months of sustained criticism for its bug-ridden, overhyped Cyberpunk 2077 release. The game had so many performance issues on different platforms that Sony pulled it from the PlayStation Store and, along with Microsoft, offered refunds to players.
Despite the company's recovery efforts, it still faces potential fallout. The attackers apparently stole source code for not only Cyberpunk 2077 but other CD Projekt Red games like Witcher 3, an unreleased version of Witcher 3, and Gwent, the digital Witcher card game. The attackers also say they stole business information like investor relations, human resources, and accounting data. CD Projekt Red says there is no evidence that customer data was compromised in the breach.
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