Poland’s listed gaming giant
“An unidentified actor gained unauthorized access to our internal network, collected certain data belonging to
Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 are CD Projekt’s two best-known games, with the former having catapulted the company to global recognition. The much-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 was released in late 2020 to mixed reviews because of bugs and problem with playability on some consoles.
“If we will not come to an agreement, then your source codes will be sold or leaked online and your documents will be sent to our contacts in gaming journalism,” the note said.
“Your public image will go down the sh**ter even more and people will see how sh**ty your company functions. Investors will lose trust in your company and the stock will dive even lower!” the note also said, according to
The company said that it would not give in to the demands and ensured that “to the best of our knowledge, the compromised system did not contain any personal data of our players or users of our services”.
The company’s stock fell 4.75% to PLN272.7 (€60.92) in the early afternoon trading on the
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