The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher video games is the latest company in the gaming industry to have been hit by a ransomware attack. CD Projekt Red made the announcement via a recent tweet, which also contains a copy of the ransom note. In it, the crybercriminals claim that they have dumped full copies of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Gwent and an unreleased version of The Witcher 3. Additionally, they dumped “documents related to accounting, administration, legal, HR, investor relations and more.”

However, in its public statement, CD Projekt Red mentions that they will not cave in to the ransomware demands. “We will not give in to the demands nor negotiate with the actor, being aware that this may eventually lead to the release of the compromised data,” CD Projekt Red wrote.

CDPR also mentions that “at this time we can confirm that — to our best knowledge — the compromised systems did not contain any personal data of our players, or users of our services.”

They have approached the relevant authorities to investigate the incident.

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— CD PROJEKT RED (@CDPROJEKTRED) February 9, 2021

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[linuxares]

I'm actually curious to know if someone is getting fired for this.

I'm more curious what kind of security they had. As it seemed to be very easy for the hackers to get in.

 

[Jayro]

I couldn't give less of a shit about the game or the company. You're an asshole if you believe that someone deserves this because "Oh, no, the 60 dollars I spent from my mom's credit card went to waste."

Now multiply that sale by the millions, and you'll see the problem. Don't be so short-sighted my friend. They screwed over millions of people that way, not just one.

I'm more curious what kind of security they had. As it seemed to be very easy for the hackers to get in.

Yeah, it sounds like they had a network share sitting with an open port 80, lol.

 

[DKB]

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Now multiply that sale by the millions, and you'll see the problem. Don't be so short-sighted my friend. They screwed over millions of people that way, not just one.

They were screwed over due to higher ups. I'm not going to wish bad things on a bunch of people who had nothing to do it with it. The fuck is wrong with you?

 

[Jayro]

They were screwed over due to higher ups. I'm not going to wish bad things on a bunch of people who had nothing to do it with it. The fuck is wrong with you?

They (CDPR, as a company) screwed over millions of people, and are now facing repercussions from the very people they screwed over. Sounds fair to me, what the fuck is wrong with YOU?

 

[DKB]

They (CDPR, as a company) screwed over millions of people, and are now facing repercussions from the very people they screwed over. Sounds fair to me, what the fuck is wrong with YOU?

You're saying they're "facing repercussions" from releasing a bad video game. You're acting like they were sending CP within the files. You're defending the actions of a bad actor. I'm short sided, you're just fucking blind.

 

[Jayro]

You're saying they're "facing repercussions" from releasing a bad video game. You're acting like they were sending CP within the files. You're defending the actions of a bad actor. I'm short sided, you're just fucking blind.

As a long-time gamer, we need to stand together as one, letting these video game companies know that we won't be fucked-over by piss-poor videogames being pushed out the doors. If it takes ransomware retaliation and data breaches to make it happen, then so-be-it.

Long story short, FUCK THEM FOR RELEASING A SHIT GAME. Vote with your wallet, and NEVER pre-order.

 

[DKB]

As a long-time gamer, we need to stand together as one, letting these video game companies know that we won't be fucked-over by piss-poor videogames being pushed out the doors. If it takes ransomware retaliation and data breaches to make it happen, then so-be-it.

Long story short, FUCK THEM FOR RELEASING A SHIT GAME. Vote with your wallet, and NEVER pre-order.

I'll stop being an asshole about this. Sorry. You're right. They should have waiting several years before even saying shit about this game. A lot of companies have done this issue. But, people were sending fucking threat threats about this game. I'm pretty sure that would persuade anyone to a release a game in a broken state.

 

[HideoKojima]

Oh ppl still hate us after screwing up cyberpunk... Let's pretend to be hacked and gain some empathy.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Please remember that nobody deserves to be attacked by illegal activities such as ransomware. I have first-hand experience in restoring an organization after a ransomware attack and I assure you it is one of the most stressful things you can do when working in infrastructure and security. If you hate dev crunch, understand the tech staffs have definitely been pulling all night shifts to isolate the impacted systems, scrub and verify backups, determine and meet requirements for minimum production restoration, rebuild any lost endpoints, inspect all appliances such as switches, storage, firewalls for any further intrusions and more.

But they made a bad game once

 

[Seliph]

Lmao CDPR just can't get a break. Maybe it's karma for abusing their workers.

Will they learn any lessons from this? Probably not.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Lmao CDPR just can't get a break. Maybe it's karma for abusing their workers.

Will they learn any lessons from this? Probably not.

Considering how capcom lost employee data and only cared about the financial losses, I'm assuming cd projekt will do the same

 

[CeeDee]

Resident "I knew Cyberpunk was stupid ass overhyped bullshit before it came out" here, just because they made a fucky ass game doesn't mean they 'deserved' to get hacked, that's a wacky ass line of thought man, c'mon.
No, what they really deserve is an overall worse customer reputation, with a side of maybe legal action for any promises broken. Getting hacked, though? Man, I dunno.
Now, if something comes out from any leaks that makes them look even sketchier?

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Resident "I knew Cyberpunk was stupid ass overhyped bullshit before it came out" here, just because they made a fucky ass game doesn't mean they 'deserved' to get hacked, that's a wacky ass line of thought man, c'mon.
No, what they really deserve is an overall worse customer reputation, with a side of maybe legal action for any promises broken. Getting hacked, though? Man, I dunno.
Now, if something comes out from any leaks that makes them look even sketchier?

Attacks like this mainly affect the devs, which makes this even worse as they were mistreated

 

[CeeDee]

Attacks like this mainly affect the devs, which makes this even worse as they were mistreated

Yes, absolutely. The developers aren't the ones who should be getting punished for corporate mismanagement. Doesn't help that some view these potential leaks as little more than "source code and upcoming secret plans" - I wouldn't be surprised if whatever potential CDPR leak also included personal information of staff there.

 

[Deleted User]

Here is the message from the hackers.

Spoiler

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Here is the message from the hackers.

Spoiler

View attachment 245729

I can't believe this is the actual message

 

[ChaosInJapan]

Looks like their servers needed some quality patches as well.


Anyway, let’s hope something interesting gets leaked.

 

[scoobydude51]

First Ubisoft
Then Capcom
Now this?

definitely connected to each other.

 

[Kioku]

I can't believe this is the actual message

Looks almost fake, tbh.

 

[Viri]

Will they learn any lessons from this? Probably not.

That's cute, even thinking for a second that a major company like CDPR will ever give a slight fuck about their employees.

I look forward to the source code leaks! Hopefully Witch 1 and 2's source code gets leaked, and someone ports it to Switch.