Security News > 2021 > February > Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Hit with Hack, Threats and Ransomware

UPDATE. CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the wildly popular Witcher series, has suffered a ransomware attack that could soon result in troves of company data being dumped online - including game source code.

The news comes on the heels of weeks of controversy over the company's blockbuster release of Cyberpunk 2077, which suffered glitches and console problems that engendered high levels of dissatisfaction among fans, who had waited more than a year for the much-hyped giant sandbox game.

"If the attackers were able to exfiltrate source code for the popular Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher games it could lead to more targeted exploit development aimed at a widespread player base," said Chris Clements, vice president of solutions architecture at Cerberus Sentinel.

In October, the Egregor gang claimed to have lifted both source code and some proprietary files from game publisher Ubisoft.

The company's release of Cyberpunk 2077 in the fall didn't go as expected, with glitches getting so bad that Sony even pulled the game from the PlayStation store, offering those who purchased it already a full refund.

In December, the CoderWare ransomware was found masquerading as a download of Cyberpunk 2077 from a fake version of the Google Play mobile app marketplace.

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