CD Projekt Got Hacked; Games Source Code, Company Documents Stolen

When it rains for CD Projekt, it pours, and for a very period of time. The company is already having quite a tough time dealing with its own release of Cyberpunk 2077. The latest blow that the company suffered is a hack. And it’s a severe enough one that may see the source code for games, as well as financial and other documents, leaked.

CD Projekt made the announcement itself on Twitter. Stating that the hack occurred yesterday, the company also shared the ransom note that the hackers left behind. And the note detailed what the hackers stole, which may as well be everything from the looks of it.

Though despite the severity, CD Projekt claims that no personal data of players and users of its services have been leaked as a result. Which is probably the only silver lining of the incident. The company is currently working on restoring its data, and also mitigating the inevitable damage of having the sensitive documents released in the wild.

The intention of the hack does come into question though. The hackers claim to leak documents to the gaming press if the ransom is not paid. And that’s not usually something you demand a ransom for. Of course, there’s no discounting the hackers are  just looking for an excuse to strengthen their case for a payment. At any rate, you can read the statement by CD Projekt, as well as the ransom note, in the tweet embedded above and linked below.

Japanese Man Arrested For Selling Hacked Pokemon

We know that Nintendo and The Pokemon Company can be very aggressive when it comes to protecting their IP. Now, in the franchise’s home country of Japan, we see things escalate to new heights, by both the companies and the offenders. Someone was arrested for selling hacked pocket monsters.

A 23-year-old man was caught selling a hacked Sobble for JPY4400 (~RM170). He is said to have made JPY1.1 million (~RM42492) selling thousands of other hacked Pokemon. It’s likely that this was what got the police’s attention. According to a shot of property seized by the police, the deed was done on the latest generation Pokemon games.

The arrest also came quite shortly after the company issued a warning about having hacked creatures on its cloud storage service, Pokemon Home. The normally expected outcome of getting caught is getting banned from the service. So it does feel a bit over the top for it to end in an arrest.

That being said, this arrest does come a month after someone was arrested for forging ice cream sticks to will lotteries of Pokemon cards. It does appear that the game series attracts not only the most desperate of fans, but also the harshest punishments.