With the intriguing launch of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Project Red has had a few months. Now, the company tweeted that it has been hacked and has to pay a ransom or code from games like Cyberpunk 2077 and an “unreleased version of Witcher 3Will be revealed. The attackers also dumped or threatened to “dump documents relating to accounting, administration, legal advice, HR, investor relations and more”.
The company said that ” an unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data from CD Project Capital Group and left a ransom letter of which we will disclose the contents to the public. ‘
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– CD PROJECT RED (@CDPROJEKTRED) February 9, 2021
“We will not concede to the claims nor negotiate with the actor, because we are aware that this could eventually lead to the release of the compromised data,” CD Projekt Red wrote in response. It adds that although our devices are encrypted in the network, ‘our backup remains intact’, and that it has secured the IT infrastructure and started data recovery.
The hack can be unsettling for another reason, as the older CD Project owns the GoG gaming platform that contains the private information of numerous subscribers. However, it is said that “at this time we can confirm that, to the best of our knowledge, the compromised systems did not contain any personal data of our players or users of our services.”
CD Projekt Red was previously hacked back in 2017, and at the time in a similar message said that the thieves’ stole documents related to early designs for the upcoming game, Cyberpunk 2077. Although not much came of the incident, the latest hack sounds more serious.
Even without the attack, CD Projekt Red has not been pretty for the past six months. After Cyberpunk 2077 launched with numerous bugs, Sony eventually took the game out of their console stores and Microsoft offered refunds to anyone who wanted it. Although all of these had sold 13 million copies by the end of 2020.