CD Projekt RED has just announced on Twitter that the company has been a victim of a targeted cyberattack on its internal network. The attacker group and individual seems to have gained access to the company’s sensitive data, after hacking into CD Projekt’s servers.
The company’s internal systems have been compromised. The hacker group claims 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.
It appears that the computer that was compromised is a “Perforce server” for data sharing and versioning.
The hacker group, who has the current possession of the files, has encrypted them and demanded to be contacted immediately within 48 hours, most likely asking for a ransom. Else, the hacker group has threatened to release all the sensitive information, including the game’s source code to the public.
The group also claims to have confidential documents related to CDPR’s financial accounting, administration, legal, HR, IR, and more. CDPR however has announced that it will not give into the demands of the attacker group, nor negotiate with the actor.
The company has reached out to authorities like law enforcement, IT forensic specialists, and also the president of the personal data protection office.
Below you can see the screenshot of the plain-text note left on the company’s server by the attacker group.
Here is the full official statement as issued by CDPR:
Just recently, CD Projekt Red’s Customer Support team issued a warning on Twitter against using Cyberpunk 2077 game mods from unknown sources. However, CD Projekt RED 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 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, as outlined: 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, 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.
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cdprojektred gave up on fixing the game so they “staged” a cybersecurity fail so hackers will get the source code in the hope other people will fix the game 😛
lol brilliant strategy
cdprojektred gave up on fixing the game so they “staged” a cybersecurity fail so hackers will get the source code in the hope other people will fix the game 😛
Beautiful. Fxck CDPR. Lying asshats and thieves. I hope GOG breach is on the way too. Everything associated with those fxcks must fall down.
Are you people serious? Why would you cheer this on? Sure, CDPR were wrong in releasing an unfinished game, but hackers are pure scum. They are a bunch of cowards that hide behind computers and cause trouble for others. That should not be praised in any way.
Nothing is more cowardly than cdpr using Witcher 3 to lie straight into millions of faces and charging 60 dollars for something that was never close to being finalized. It’s impossible to get your money back unless you are on steam because on gog, microsoft, and ps store the refunds are intentionally delayed and for review which can take up to months.
Utter garbage.
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What does that have to do with morality of hacking them lmao.
Just another day on DSOG readers’ miserable life.
Because most of them are just bitter morons. See their responses to your comment for evidence.
True. So many toxic morons. They are butthurt and delusional.
stfu man. this game is a pure SCAM, and these polish c*** deserved to be hacked.
This game is an INSULT to RPGs and FPS gaming genres. over hyped garbage.
Don’t bother trying to be nuanced here. It’s a futile effort unfortunately.
Because I’m laughing at the r**ards who defended this garbage, I’m laughing at the retards who bought this garbage out of hype and brand loyalty despite several enthusiasts telling them otherwise and I’m laughing at the retards who produced and lied to these retards still defending a broken unfinished game sold on hot air.
AAA needs to collapse and sh*t like this helps a lot towards that end.
The irony of defending a corporation that got hacked (which i dont believe for a second, i can also make a .txt like it was written by a 14 years old and search for simpathy points on twitter) after releasing a Cyberpunk game…impressive.
No one is defending them but, saying it’s good etc. because you were disappointed that the game didn’t live up to the hype or your own expectations is just pathetic.
Anyone getting hacked and info stolen is not good.
? and im not saying is good either…but you are reacting like if somebody died. It was a security breach, it happens all the time.
You are projecting a lot there buddy, i cant be dissapointed over a game i didnt have any expectations…i can say is just a big meh.
At this point i found the whole situation surrounding CDPR after the release of this game hilarious, hacking (bulls*it) included, they are just desperate and they found a poor excuse to not release the promised “big” patch for this month.
F..k off millennial.
Nice comeback…i guess.
Die corpo scum
stealing and hacking is a very bad act,nonetheless the bunch of liars at CDPR had it coming.
LGBTQ+(a bilion other genders?) and Diversity responsible for Server security?
Unreleased Witch 3, hmm i hope they release the E3 2014 Witcher 3
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Nope, we get the new upgraded and remastered Witcher 3 instead, one that will look similar to what you can get with mods!
Diversity hires surely secured the company’s servers.
The honeymoon with neoliberal corporate america is over for Cdprojekt, i hope the money was worth it.
Muwhahahaha
Thats for having my potato RTX 3090 having trouble to run tgis game with all its bells and whilstles on 1080p not above 60 fps.. https://media1.giphy.com/media/8ss6RDxYBCvSg/giphy.gif
Will not give in to demands. Yeah right!!
lol, now CDPR is surely REKT !
CD ProRekt RED 😀
This definitely seems like an insider job. Not to say this isn’t surprising, but I don’t think anyone outside of the company would do this for free or has the know-how or technical skills, of where the sensitive files are located on the servers ?
or maybe the hackers really got access to the server, who knows. But this makes matter worse for CDPR. Haha, this POS game deserves to be hacked and Nuked for good.
Good riddance LGBT and SJW supporters !
Reading the hacker’s note they seem like a bunch of a$$holes, so I doubt we will ever see any of those source codes…
That said, I’d love to see the unreleased TW3 build (before the cucksole downgrade?)
The unreleased TW3 build might be the up and coming RTX version of said game.
This has been getting more and more of a problem for everyone. All you utter morons praising and supporting this act had better hope that you aren’t targeted one day as it can ruin people’s lives. These hacker people are the worst kind of scum out there.
Says the paladin of morality…
Here you go again, yawn.
Get use to it. Or you could stop commenting dumb sh*t…that would help.
Get an education.
Says who? you are a nobody too.
i don’t know why, but why people are buying this overhyped game, game is still on top sellers list on steam, are people that dumb to buy this garbage overhyped boring game
“are people that dumb to buy this overhyped boring game” Yes, they are.
Good f*ck em.
No one will be sided with cdpr
…..How convenient CDPR !
God bless those a**holes
Says the biggest victim card holder on the planet, lmao.
100% biggest right wing f4g since Milo
So many people got on board the HYPE~! train for this game, that they were bound to be disappointed no matter the quality of the finished game. That’s what happens when you throw down millions in cash towards advertising and sponsorship deals. I always reserved healthy skepticism towards the game, because eurojank will forever be eurojank. Continental Europe has a tendency to create really, really janky games, no matter their scope and size.
I’m also not buying the idea that this leak was an inside job. As is often the case, disgruntled employees usually get found out. If this was the case, the employee(s) in question would be looking at a dead career, court fees, and quite possibly several years of jail.
Not sure what all the incel rantings about the “LGBT agenda” in this thread have to do about anything. For such a website with a fun editorial slant and focus on the details of PC gaming absent the annoying modern tropes of sponsorship content and obvious conflicts of interest, this community sounds like a bunch of bitter societal outcasts who would rather project all their grievances towards fantasied conspiracy theories about marginalized people having omnipresent, omniscient powers.
At least 4chan can be funny sometimes.
Fake self attack for distraction.
hacker’s note on notepad? hope this is not cdpr stunt to buy sympathy. ya know cdpr has been caught lying and false advertising. they been showing you fake gameplay demo to trick people into pre-orders. nothing is impossible with cdpr.
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Go back to 4chud you sad c*nt
cry me a river! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d951c2f8a2f67f13eda88f2157318810525e40032fb38c97515d14a31413bb1c.jpg
lmfao, the company is now trying to take backups from their servers, in hopes of restoring some data.
They’ll have everything restored extremely fast. It is not what was “lost”, it is what the hackers have that is the issue to them.
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In the worst case scenario, what are the severe consequences for CDPR, if suppose all the source code is leaked on the web ? How will this effect the company’s rep, and its future as well as past game franchises ?
“The group also claims to have confidential documents related to CDPR’s… HR”
That sure could make for interesting reading given that…
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Here is a snippet from the leak:
“all employees are to regularly gobble trans s*men to prove they are not transphobic…”
the reason we got stalker mods is because at a presentation the developers left a pc with mod tools and multiplayer version of stlaker, so they found the the tools and made mods.
So this is a good thing.
No System Is Safe!!!
LOL muh downvotes!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bb0f8d14762d546005f4e343a159c982899a90675fef67032d2bdac3224347cb.png