The hackers behind this week’s ransomware attack on Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt Red seem to have discovered a purchaser for the stolen information. They ran an public sale on a hacking discussion board however, as The Verge notes, they shut it down after reportedly accepting a suggestion from elsewhere.
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The beginning worth for the public sale was stated to be $1 million and there was the choice for an get together with a spare $7 million to purchase the information outright. It is not clear who has acquired the information, how a lot they paid for it or what they’re planning on doing with the data.
The hackers allegedly snagged the supply code for Cyberpunk 2077, an unreleased model of The Witcher 3 and different video games, in addition to authorized, human sources and monetary paperwork. CDPR stated it would not pay up or negotiate with the attackers, even when it meant that hackers might need launched the information to the general public.
Though the ransomware locked some units on CDPR’s community, the studio was capable of begin restoring information from its backups. It additionally stated that, to the perfect of its information, techniques that comprise private information of its gamers and customers weren’t affected.
