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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[Jayro]

After a healthy row of good games, they released a mess, and this makes them worthy of being hacked and their data being held hostage by idiots?
Glass rooftops, my friend. Sometimes they crash down on you. Hard.

Every game release from them has been a mess, they just fucked up the Cyberpunk release worse than usual, somehow. All those years worth of delays, and nothing to show for it. The game should have been well-polished, little-to-no bugs, and well-optimized at launch, but it wasn't. A slap to gamers faces everywhere. They get what they get.

 

[Maq47]

Every game release from them has been a mess, they just fucked up the Cyberpunk release worse than usual, somehow. All those years worth of delays, and nothing to show for it. The game should have been well-polished, little-to-no bugs, and well-optimized at launch, but it wasn't. A slap to gamers faces everywhere. They get what they get.

Jayro is the hacker confirmed. xD

 

[Jayro]

Jayro is the hacker confirmed. xD

I wish. I don't even know how to get started with crypto currency, lol.

 

[hamohamo]

NO WAY. never thought hackers could acquire the version that doesnt suck of cyberpunk 2077.

 

[tempGuri]

based hackers

 

[Plasmaster09]

ngl this is just the cherry on top of the cake of catastrophically bad coding that they demonstrated in cyberpunk 2077
like this shows just how awful at coding, stability and even security they are to get held for digital ransom by someone that talks like a ten year old using groan-worthy leetspeek

 

[AshuraZro]

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.

 

[eriols]

I hope this means third person view mods are getting real

 

[RyRyIV]

I mean, they kind of deserved it... Karma's a bitch, yeah? Now why was their development systems online to begin with? I couldn't fathom being so stupid as to expose my dev files to the open web like that, lol.

Yeaaah, I'm gonna disagree that rushing out a highly anticipated game and not taking the time to properly polish/optimize it makes them deserving of targeted ransomware. Certainly worthy of criticism, but this is multiple steps too far.

 

[Jayro]

Yeaaah, I'm gonna disagree that rushing out a highly anticipated game and not taking the time to properly polish/optimize it makes them deserving of targeted ransomware. Certainly worthy of criticism, but this is multiple steps too far.

There was no rushing. It was delayed time and time again, through an entire console generation, for seemingly no reason as we still got a buggy unoptimized mess.

 

[NNate]

I understand being unhappy with their game releases, but this response to that is a bit extreme. Make your voice heard by not giving them your money, not by attacking the company's servers.

 

[nastys]

Am I a bad person for hoping the Stadia executable of Cyberpunk 2077 gets leaked so we can play it natively on Linux, since CDPR won't release it officially?

 

[Deleted member 397813]

"Like a movie EPICLY PWNED he’s having fun lmaomamaka@ao"

-@twomad

 

[Kioku]

I mean, they kind of deserved it... Karma's a bitch, yeah? Now why was their development systems online to begin with? I couldn't fathom being so stupid as to expose my dev files to the open web like that, lol.

They definitely didn't deserve it. "Kind of" or otherwise. Releasing a broken game (that can be fixed) is not a good enough reason to compromise their systems and potentially ruin them. Regardless of how much you hate them.

 

[DKB]

Bigger assholes in this thread for thinking they deserved this.

 

[Jayro]

Bigger assholes in this thread for thinking they deserved this.

I said what I said. It is what it is.

 

[hamohamo]

Bigger assholes in this thread for thinking they deserved this.

boohoo the multimillionaire company got their keanu reeves videogame stolen by the kid next door. cry me a river.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Could you even notice?

 

[DKB]

boohoo the multimillionaire company got their keanu reeves videogame stolen by the kid next door. cry me a river.

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."

 

[Kioku]

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