The “father” of Cyberpunk 2077 was hacked by hackers, selling game source code for 160 billion VND

The “father” of Cyberpunk 2077 insists that he will never succumb to cybercriminals and is confident to bring these guys to justice.

Not long after hackers attacked CD Projekt Red (developer of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher) earlier this week, information about the source code of 3 games Cyberpunk 2077, Gwent and The Witcher 3 has been publicly sold on the Internet. network.

According to well-known data security firm vx-underground, the hacker group that carried out the CD Projekt Red attack has opened an auction for the source code they are holding. The starting price of this toolkit is 1 million USD (~ 23 billion VND). The auction will stop immediately if anyone pays 7 million USD (~ 160 billion VND) for the source code.

The move came when CD Projekt Red refused to comply with a request from the hackers, who gave CD Projekt Red an ultimatum 48 hours to come to an agreement, or else the company’s source code would be sold or destroyed. Leakage. After resolutely not cooperating with hackers, CD Projekt Red announced that they guarantee 100% of users’ personal data is still safe. Only the open source code of the games and much of the developer’s data were stolen.

CD Projekt Red is currently working with law enforcement to request assistance. The “father” of Cyberpunk 2077 insists that he will never succumb to cybercriminals and is confident to bring these guys to justice.