CD Projekt RED has just issued a statement in which it recognizes that it was the victim of a cyber attack, the attackers gained access to its internal network by accessing sensitive data and the source code of its famous games.
The company has already had a difficult year and it looks like things are getting worse. In a press release posted on Twitter, CD Projekt RED included a screenshot of a plain text ransom note left on its servers by the intruder. The source code for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gwent “and an unreleased version of The Witcher 3 (probably the remastering) have been captured or encrypted. If you read the note, it doesn’t end, there are private documents from CDPRs financial accounting, administration, legal, HR and more were the victims.
CDPR said it would not comply with the attacker’s requests and contacted the authorities. The hacker, in turn, gives the CD Projekt RED 48 hours to contact him for an agreement, however, what is required has not been listed.
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Earlier today, leaks of possibly legitimate source code began to appear on online forums, as noted on Twitter by the cyber security account VX-underground. This initial leak is believed to include the source code for CDPR’s virtual card game Gwent. The files were posted to Mega.nz and quickly removed. However, it didn’t take long for the content to spread through the most famous hacker forums. A website called CyberNews has already downloaded these files and found that they are actually the source code for Gwent, the card game released by CD Projekt in 2016.
We assume that this is a real auction conducted by a real seller who obtained the data. The seller offers to use a guarantor and 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 fraud will occur, ”a spokesperson for KELA (a company that monitors the dark web) said. An auction is offering source code files for Red Engine and CDPR game releases, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales spinoff and the recently released Cyberpunk 2077. Stolen material is also believed to include internal documents, although it is unclear what types of documents or additional materials the full cache includes.
KELA says the starting auction price is $ 1 million, with higher bids in increments of $ 500,000 and a buy-in price of $ 7 million now. Only users who deposit 0.1 bitcoin can participate, which is why Kivilevich believes that hackers are serious about hosting the auction and that the material for sale is probably legitimate because it ensures that no one participating in the auction is trying to trick sellers .
Update 2:
It turns out that there was a source code for the bidder Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, the card game Gwent was sold. According to cyber experts, the seller would have received a “satisfactory” offer outside the auction, so they closed it. Not everyone is convinced that the data was actually sold. According to security analyst Emsisoft, it is possible that there were no potential buyers. The criminals then reportedly stopped the sale, to give the impression that the source code was sold.
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