There is a lot of gossip created after the company was hacked CD Project RED And on February 9, the company published a statement on Twitter that said:
“Yesterday we discovered that we have been victims of a deliberate cyberattack, by which some of our internal systems have been compromised”
Although some of their devices were encrypted, they failed to corrupt the backups and restored the data.
The company published along with its statement the ransom note from the “cybercriminals” where they claimed to have obtained the source code of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 (plus another version of the game that did not reach the public) and GwentIn addition, they threatened to publish the code if they did not pay the ransom in 48 hours.
CD Project It made it clear in its statement that it would not give in to threats, being aware of the possible disclosure of its games and ensuring that no personal data of its players or users of its services.
With this resounding no from the company and having passed 48 hours, we were able to read on the portal Cybernews that a link to the file began to be disseminated CDProjekt Leak # 1 at Mega.NZ, where you could download the source code for the card game GWENT and although they soon disabled the links, it was already published by several hacker forums.
After all this, as Allison would say The Umbrella Academy , “there was a rumor” that an auction was going to be held at 1 pm Moscow time, and that a deposit of 0.1 BTC (some 4250€ at the time of writing this article) to participate.
What happened on the day of the auction?
Finally the day of the auction arrived where we were able to find out, according to a piracy forum called Exploit, where a “little package” was made like an eBay auction, with the source code of Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, The Witcher 3, plus its version that was not published and that of Cyberpunk 2077, in addition to several internal documents of the study.
There were screenshots of the supposed Deep-eBay where it was verified that the initial price started at one million dollars, in a bidding plan or the "buy it now" option of seven million dollars, although finally those in the know say that the buyer has taken the lot with an offer different from what is indicated.
CD Project RED He has not commented again regarding everything that happened after his last publication and, as we already said, he assured that the personal data of the users had not been affected.
Finally, we have been positively surprised by the response of this company, an example of transparency against Ransomware, where he has not only refused to pay, but has published a statement acknowledging the incident and publishing the extortion note from the kidnappers of his information.
