As you may already know, Polish game developer CD Projekt Red has been in the limelight since Cyberpunk 2077 was released on the PC as well as consoles. Just few months ago, CDPR was under investigation by Poland’s Consumer Protection Agency over Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled launch. CDPR also issued an official apology statement afterwards.
Recently, CD Projekt RED also announced on Twitter that the company was a victim of a targeted cyberattack on its internal network. The attacker group and individual gained access to the company’s sensitive data, after hacking into CD Projekt’s servers. The company’s internal systems were severely compromised.
The hacker group claimed to have the source code of the company’s most popular titles, including Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Gwent, and an unreleased version of The Witcher 3 game. The computer that was compromised was a “Perforce server” for data sharing and versioning.
It now appears that CDPR is taking some measures against the hacked stolen game code which is being distributed online. The company has issued DMCA takedowns against multiple Twitter users, as reported by Vice. The company plans to mitigate some of the damage by filing DMCA takedown notice against Twitter users posting online links to the stolen source code.
Several tweets have been taken down recently which contained the torrent links to the developer’s stolen game codes. Several Twitter users have received notifications from a copyright monitoring company for providing torrent links containing the source code. The Twitter users told that they have indeed received DMCA notices for posting the source code of CDPR’s most popular titles.
As the DMCA takedown notice reads:
“Description of infringement: Illegally obtained source code of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. Posted without authorisation, not intended to be released to the public”.
Apart from this, three other users also had their tweets taken down, which have since been replaced with an official statement from Twitter which reads: “has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder.”
As reported by Vice, hackers who posted the company’s leaked data online were also trying to sell other alleged unreleased data stolen from CDPR. However, one of the sellers declined to answer any questions, telling Motherboard in an online chat that they had “no interest” unless they paid $250 per question.
All in all, it appears that CDPR has been working with various agencies to investigate this whole situation further, in an attempt to protect its property at all costs. The company has already reached out to authorities like law enforcement, IT forensic specialists, and also the president of the personal data protection office.
In case you didn’t know, CD Projekt Red’s Customer Support team recently issued a warning on Twitter against using Cyberpunk 2077 game mods from unknown sources. However, the developer released a brand new update and patch version 1.12, which addressed this vulnerability that could be used as part of a remote code execution.
Back in December 2020, Rosen Law Firm also filed a class action lawsuit against CD Projekt. The lawsuit was aimed to recover damages for CD Projekt investors under the federal securities laws.
According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements to investors. CD Projekt seems to have been under hot water lately, because a total of five separate U.S.-based law firms have already filed class-action lawsuits against the company for possibly misleading investors.
CD Projekt is currently being sued by five U.S. law firms, which are: RM Law, Schall Law, Rosen Law, Bragar Eagel & Squire, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz.
But this doesn’t stop here, because if all that didn’t cause enough damage to CD Projekt’s reputation, as I reported earlier, Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection has also opened a formal investigation into CD Projekt S.A. for Cyberpunk 2077’s performance.
Cyberpunk 2077 is now available on the PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, and is in development for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S as well. It will be interesting to see how CD Projekt handles this whole situation.
Stay tuned for more!
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I find hilarious the fact a company that made a game about cyberpunk has become an insufferable corporation and they got hacked by hackers. I also find hilarious that the insufferable middle upper class journos, who has his pronouns in there so people know he is as much of a soyprick as the fat gay from demolition man is mad that hackers will not talk to them and will allow them to ask one question for a ridiculous amount of money, this should be the law while dealing with the likes of vice.
Finally, the reason we got stalker mods is because of source code and development program leaks.
Nice and warm by this dumpster fire
Seems CDPR’s security of it’s data is as poor as cyberpunk’s quality.
It doesn’t really matter at this point. The code is out there in the wild and there’s no going back.
I honestly couldn’t stand hearing CDPR gloat about their game all the f###en time for years instead of shutting the f### up and just working on it. So seeing all this bullshit happen now feels like karma and hopefully a lesson learned to shut the f### up if there is a next time.
Once its leaked its over, you can do whatever you want its not gonna stop, considering how much of the cluster f@@k is CD project good for them 🙂 witcher 3 is that one game that shined and the last that will ever shine
Yup. It’s digital. What does CDPR expect? LOL!
Still smell to me like a elaborated fake leak.
I’ve never seen such a colossal implosion of any game company, such as CDPR over the past 9 months.
It wasn’t too long ago, that many people considered them as one of the last bastions of game development and storefront.
What a gongshow this has all turned out to be. CDPR is just another pile of woke trash anymore.
sjws have already taken over cdpr, id tell you that this is the last good game they make, but that would be a lie because this game isnt good.
Seedy Projekt REKT
Is Cyberpunk out of beta yet?
Not yet!
It prolly never will with all the incompetent SJWs, and “included” devs working on it!
It was never even in beta. LOL!
To be fair, any sane person should indeed respond with “No interest” to any ‘journalist’ from SJW cesspit Vice.
Hey. So was it a bad idea if I gave “Vice” as a reference at least for this article ? I got the link/news via Tom’s Hardware forums though, lol.
STFU with your BS propaganda man…
Still crying and bitterly downvoting comments after having humiliated yourself before John and several others 2 days ago, huh.
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gg
What happened 2 days ago?
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Every damn time, with every comment you come as a fag…fragile man.
Tell us what is your problem…we are all friends here.
one of this mans friends should pay a street walker to wet his d*ck. cause he’s walking around with a stick shoved up his a*s.
Hey. So was it a bad idea if I gave “Vice” as a reference at least for this article as well ? I got the link/news via Tom’s Hardware forums though
No problem. No need to change anything man.
Thanks.
I wouldn’t be trusting Tom’s Hardware for anything! Not after their infamous “Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money” article penned by then-new editor-in-chief Avram Piltch.
Said article, as it appears now, was heavily amended in the wake of an epic consumer backlash. Piltch somewhat incredulously escaped being fired.
I wouldn’t be trusting your comments either, lmao.
No one cares about what you think, buddy.
You are correct. And the same goes for your – or my, for that matter – comments.
Not at all. It depends of the way one expresses their opinions. I, for exemple, can respect and even care of one’s opinion is he / she is not an entitled a-hole.
I respectfully disagree. TOM’s Hardware has changed a lot these days, since past few years.
I do find their tech/hardware articles worth giving a read, and some of their tech findings have been extremely helpful to the gaming community and the like, including myself. Especially stuff also posted on their forums.
Not every article is penned as “Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money” sort of thing. nope.
You don’t seem to have a spine of your own, do you? A reporter isn’t worth much if he seeks validation from readers.
I do. But, that’s not the case here. You misunderstood. I was just wondering what was so bad about VICE website, that the OP calls it as an “SJW cesspit”.
Not actually seeking his validation, to be honest, but rather his opinion, because it always wonders me whenever these guys use the word SJW in any context.
Also, it’s not like I was about to change/edit my article though, just based on some commenter’s opinion or rant. Nope.
But you have a point with which I do agree. As a journo, I shouldn’t have asked him or anyone else in the first place though.
Once the files are on the internet you lost…what a pointless effort…should put it on fixing/finishing the game
Johnny boy can you not moderate my post unless it’s an upload or a link posted. anything else I f*king say shouldn’t leave you legally liable.
Those files are by now on every russian tracker.
That seems to be a smart idea in dealing with Vice “journalists” haha