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It’s Corporate PR 101: If you want people to miss your ad, do it at 5pm on a Friday. Or, at the very least, wait for everyone to watch something else.
While the entire gaming world focused on the sartorially questionable Geoff Keighleys sneakers during the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live! event, Cyberpunk 2077’s CD Projekt Red studio released a statement regarding a February cyber attack against the company. It turns out that the data breach cannot be contained.
Today, we learned new information about the breach and have reason to believe that the internal data obtained during the attack is currently circulating on the Internet. […] We are unable to confirm the exact content of the data in question, although we believe it may include details of current / former employees and contractors in addition to data related to our games, wrote CDPR in a tweet posted at 2:39 PM ET, in the midst of today’s highly anticipated video game ad showcase.
However, CDPR was vague as to what exactly was out there and whether something was true or had been tampered with.
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When the cyber attack was made public this winter, the hackers, who remained anonymous, claimed to have obtained the source code for CDPR games such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077.
Your [sic] they were epically PWNED !!! they wrote, presumably giving CDPR 48 hours to respond. Hackers have threatened that, by releasing internal documents, public confidence and, more importantly, CDPR’s share price would decline, likely a reference to the infamous launch of Cyberpunk 2077.
Today’s statement does not say whether CDPR game players were interested or not. CDPR representatives did not immediately respond to Kotakus’ request for comment.
In February, while addressing the hack for the first time, CDPR wrote that, as far as we know, the compromised systems did not contain any personal data of our players or users of our services.
The next day, the hackers reportedly auctioned the data with an initial price of $ 1 million.
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