Stolen CD Projekt Red source files reportedly sold on the dark web

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The nighttime web monitoring organization KELA has announced that source files stolen from Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red in a recent cyber attack have been sold in a nighttime web sale. Reportedly, the files included source lawmaking for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, and Gwent. Reports bespeak that the files were sold for $seven one thousand thousand in a unmarried package, although the validity of this data is currently unclear.

Just in: #CDProjektRed AUCTION IS CLOSED. #Hackers auctioned off stolen source code for the #RedEngine and #CDPR game releases, and take just announced that a satisfying offer from outside the forum was received, with the condition of no further distribution or selling. picture show.twitter.com/4Z2zoZlkV6
— KELA (@Intel_by_KELA) Feb 11, 2022

At the moment, it isn't articulate what the files will be used for or who even bought them. Cybersecurity experts, notwithstanding, may take sniffed out the culprit of the file theft, with several experts identifying a group named "HelloKitty" as the guilty political party. Nosotros'll likely larn more as more than experts investigate the cyber attack in the coming days and weeks.

Overall, information technology's troubling to think that crucial developer source files can be stolen and sold for millions of dollars in what feels like the blink of an eye. Hopefully this situation doesn't end up hurting CD Projekt Ruby-red's developers likewise much in the long run. The company has gone through extreme scrutiny recently due to intensely harsh working conditions and suspicions of intentional dishonesty nearly the quality of Cyberpunk 2077's console versions, and so we tin can't imagine this file theft is helping matters.

Cyberpunk 2077 is available now for $60 on Xbox Serial Ten, Xbox Series S, Xbox 1 consoles, and Windows 10 PCs via Steam equally well as CD Projekt Ruddy's ain GOG storefront.

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