The hacker attack was more serious than expected, according to employee data

In the middle of the evening dedicated to the Summer Sports Festival, CD program RED A few months ago the company released a report on CyberDoc, which admitted that personal data of employees and collaborators may have been stolen.

In fact, at the beginning of the year the Polish team announced that it was Victim of ransomware attack Very important. In recent weeks, CD Stolen data from Project Red began to circulate online: these include, in addition to many bug montages created by developers, the source code of the game Witcher3 e Cyberpunk 2077.

In the evening, the studio shared a new report, which describes the situation: “Today, we have learned new information about the breach, and there is reason to believe now that internal data obtained illegally during the attack is spreading on the Internet. We have not been able to confirm the exact contents of the data in question, however we believe that they may include details about old and new employees and collaborators as well as data associated with our games. Furthermore, we cannot exclude that the relevant data has not been manipulated or corrupted. We work with a network of services, specialists and law firms, including the Polish Public Police. We also contacted Interpol and Europole. The information we published in February with the head of the Office of Data Protection (PUODO) has been updated“.

In short, the attack experienced by CD Project Red seems to be more serious than expected. Today Electronic Arts confirmed Theft of FIFA 21 source codes And Frostbite graphics engine.