Quote: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 Warsaw-based company tweeted out a notice on Tuesday, warning of “a targeted cyberattack in which some of our systems have become compromised.”
 
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.
 
However, unhappy players are not likely behind the event. Researcher Fabian Wosar noted that the adversaries, according to his analysis, are likely the same ransomware group that hacked the Brazilian energy company CEMIG last December.
“The amount of people that are thinking this was done by a disgruntled gamer is laughable. Judging by the ransom note that was shared, this was done by a ransomware group we track as ‘HelloKitty,'” he said. “This has nothing to do with disgruntled gamers and is just your average ransomware.”