Remember when CD Projekt Red was hacked? No, the other time. It’s been over two weeks since, and things are probably worse than the studio let on.
That’s according to anonymous employees who told Bloomberg that they’re locked out of the company’s VPN with zero access to the necessary development tools because most of them are working from home. You can’t spell “technology” without the “no”, kids! Employees were also required to send their PCs to the IT department for security scans, and I guess Kelly from marketing is breathlessly counting the minutes until she’s busted for clicking on a totally obvious phishing scam. Or Kevin from HR. Stupidity is an equal opportunity business.
Anyway, a Cyberpunk 2077 game update expected to drop now has been pushed to “the second half of March” as a result, but CDPR’s social media guy was more ambiguous about the situation.
While we dearly wanted to deliver Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 in the timespan we detailed previously, the recent cyber attack on the studio’s IT infrastructure and extensive scope of the update mean this unfortunately will not happen — we’ll need some additional time. 1/3
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 24, 2021
Our goal for Patch 1.2 goes beyond any of our previous updates. We’ve been working on numerous overall quality improvements and fixes, and we still have work to do to make sure that’s what you get. With that in mind, we’re now aiming for release in the second half of March. 2/3
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 24, 2021
It’s not the news we enjoy sharing, but we want to make sure we launch this update properly. Stay tuned for more information as the time draws closer. Thank you for your continued patience and support. 3/3
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) February 24, 2021
The hacker claimed to have swiped source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and other CDPR games, and GamesIndustry reports that the data was subsequently auctioned online with a starting price of $1 million, and sold for an undisclosed cash sum. Which I know is big “my dad is a CEO at Nintendo” vibes, but talking to Vice, an unidentified Twitter user confirmed that multiple posts with a download link to the Gwent source code were scrubbed in compliance with a DMCA complaint from CDPR. So some of that data is out on the internet, maybe, unless that’s also a phishing scam.
