Security News > 2023 > January > Riot Games receives ransom demand from hackers, refuses to pay
Riot Games says it will not pay the ransom demanded by the attackers responsible for the security breach the company disclosed last week.
"While we hope some of these game modes and other changes eventually make it out to players, most of this content is in prototype and there's no guarantee it will ever be released," Riot Games said.
Riot Games said it's working with law enforcement and external consultants to investigate the attack and that a full report will be released detailing how its development environment was breached and what measures were taken to prevent this from happening again.
"While our teams are working hard on a fix, we expect this to impact our upcoming patch cadence across multiple games," Riot Games said.
The Riot Games breach follows the hack of another major video game publisher, 2K Games, which said in September 2020 that attackers breached its help desk and infected some customers with malware.
The same month, Rockstar Games was also breached, with the attacker leaking videos of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto VI game and source code files for GTA V and GTA VI. The hacker behind the Rockstar Games incident has also claimed a cyberattack on Uber, which attributed their breach to the Lapsus$ extortion group.