Cyberpunk 2077 hacked by attackers or its just Rumours?

What’s Cyberpunk 2077 hacked?

CD Projekt Red, developer of Cyberpunk 2077, said that its system was hacked on Tuesday (09–02–2021). The Hacker twitted a ransom note. The attackers claimed to have gotten:

1) Cyberpunk’s source code,

2) The Witcher 3 (unreleased version of Witcher 3)

3) Gwent’s spinoff card game.

Threats of Hackers:

Hacker said if they did not come to an agreement with CD Projekt Red.

The CD Projekt Red will face the following consequences:

1) Release the source code of the games,

2) Along with documents from the accounting, legal and other departments of the Polish game studio.

“It seems the hackers are serious”

Latest Updates from Hackers side:

Hackers announced auction for the Gwent (CD Projekt card game) source code according to The Verge Thursday, on a hacker forum. The Hackers set the starting bid of $1 million upto $7 million to buy it completely. Kela, a cybersecurity firm, thinks the auction is legitimate.

Today auction is sold (11–02–2021)

CD Projekt Response:

CD Projekt does not believe that any confidential information of players or users of its services has been breached and says “it will not give in to or reach an agreement with the requests of the hackers.”

Consequences of Cyberpunk 2077 hacked

The ransom-ware attack alluded to the already bumpy launch of Cyberpunk in December. Before this attack performance problems and bugs, even on the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X, affected the Console versions of the massively hyped sci-fi game from CD Project.

The game studio recommended that former employees allow fraud alerts for their personal information, but according to a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, it had no proof that the hackers retrieved those details.

After numerous reports that the game was almost unplayable on PS4 and Xbox One hardware, Sony and Microsoft both removed Cyberpunk from their digital stores and full compensation to dissatisfied customers

Hope for the best

In an apology video, the developer’s co-founder eventually accepted that the console version of his game “did not fulfils the standard quality we wanted it to meet” and highlighted its ideas to fix the issues through patches.

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