CD Projekt RED victim of attack - Source Code now possibly sold (update)
CD Projekt RED just issued a statement in which they acknowledge they are the victim of a cyber-attack, attackers gained entry towards their internal network accessing delicate data and source code of their famous games.
The company already has seen a rough year, and it seems things get worse. In a press statement posted on Twitter, CD Projekt RED included a screenshot of a plain-text ransom note left on its servers by the intruder. Source code for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gwent," and an unreleased version of The Witcher 3 (likely the remaster) have been snagged or encrypted. If you read the note it does not end there are private documents from CDPR's financial accounting, administration, legal, HR, and more fell victim.
CDPR stated that it will not give in to the requests of the attacker, and has reached out to law enforcement. The hacker on its end gives CD Projekt RED 48 hours to contact him/them for an agreement, however, what is demanded has not been listed.
Updated:
Earlier today, leaks of conceivably legitimate source code started appearing on online forums, as noted on Twitter by the cybersecurity account VX-underground. This initial leak is believed to include the source code of the CDPR’s virtual card game Gwent. The files were posted on Mega.nz and quickly removed. However, it didn't take long for the content to spread across the most famous hacking forums. A site called CyberNews has already downloaded these files and verified that they are actually the source code for Gwent, the card game released by CD Projekt in 2016.
We do suppose that this is a real auction by a real seller who obtained the data. The seller offers to use a guarantor and he allows only those who have a deposit to participate — a tactic that is used by many sellers to show that they are serious and to ensure that no scam will occur,” a spokesperson from KELA (a company that monitors the dark web) said. An auction is offering source code files for both the Red Engine and CDPR game releases, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales spinoff, and the recently released Cyberpunk 2077. The stolen material is also believed to include internal documents, though it’s not clear what types of documents or additional material the full cache includes.
KELA says the starting price of the auction is $1 million, with higher bids in increments of $500,000 and a buy-it-now price of $7 million. Only users who deposit 0.1 bitcoin can participate, which is why Kivilevich believes the hackers are serious about hosting the auction and that the material for sale is likely legitimate because it ensures nobody participating in the auction is trying to scam the sellers.
Update 2:
As it turns out there has been a bidder source code of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, the card game Gwent has been sold. According to the cyber specialists the seller would have received a 'satisfactory' offer outside of the auction, so they closed it. Not everyone is convinced that the data has actually been sold. According to security analyst Emsisoft , it is possible that there were no potential buyers at all. The criminals would then have stopped the sale, in order to give the impression that the source code has been sold.
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I feel bad for them.
For me it counts:
-they always sold their games DRM free
-they gave all DLC for Witcher 3 for free
They are not a greedy company by gaming industry definition and customer support is good.
Too bad for the Cyberpunk disaster but I think there is a curse in gaming industry for products released very late with a lot of hype- I still remember the hype for the reboot of Duke Nukem...
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I feel bad for them.
For me it counts:
-they always sold their games DRM free
-they gave all DLC for Witcher 3 for free
They are not a greedy company by gaming industry definition and customer support is good.
Too bad for the Cyberpunk disaster but I think there is a curse in gaming industry for products released very late with a lot of hype- I still remember the hype for the reboot of Duke Nukem...
Yes that matters and i think they still have some good will among gamers despite the disaster of Cyberpunk launch...
In the end it´s up to us to vote with the wallet and realise that the hype surrounding games is just another marketing tool...
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Thats a karma for the lies and millions of ppl ripped off
They can just close the doors and call it a quit. They are not even able to patch their last game so a completely useless and irrelevant company.
Did you just assume the opinion of "millions of ppl"? Well done old boy.
I've played the game and don't feel ripped off whatsoever. I think the ~55h I spent on the game were worth the 60€ I paid despite bugs and a few other things. I also didn't have any expectations and didn't see this game as the second coming as some clearly have. There are WAY worse games out there.
Wishing the worst on innocents (=99% of the company since it's only the upper 1% that take executive decisions) is really shitty.
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The Cyberpunk bugs must be console based because the game is simply that demanding and I honestly believe consoles don't have the resources to keep up. I have a beefy PC and I have played well over 100 hrs of the game going through multiple endings and the bugs I have encountered have been minimal and not game breaking in the very least. The game is huge, highly detailed and amazing but you have to have the resources and performance to match.
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As a beginner in then cybersecurity field, I feel sorry for their breach.
How many hours of code, sleepless nights and personal issues Devs dealt with?
This kind of news somehow makes us forget that behind curtain, we are talking about people. Aren't we all people?
Yes, they are at fault. But also are we.
Because we laugh, because we think it's cool.
It isn't. It's ugly, it's the tar pit of ugly.
I'm at loss here.