PARIS: Murderer’s Creed writer Ubisoft stated Tuesday (Dec 26) it was investigating a suspected information safety breach, within the newest cyberattack in opposition to a serious actor within the online game trade.
Hackers tried to grab 900 gigabytes from Ubisoft servers however the French studio’s safety workforce rebuffed the breach on Thursday, in accordance with malware info web site vx-underground.
“We’re conscious of an alleged information safety incident and are presently investigating,” a Ubisoft spokesman instructed AFP on Tuesday.
The French firm’s different main titles embrace Far Cry and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
Sony unit Insomniac Video games was hit by a ransomware assault final week.
After Insomniac refused to pay, the hackers revealed firm info, in addition to materials associated to online game tasks Wolverine and Spider-Man 3.
“We’re each saddened and angered concerning the latest prison cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it is taken on our dev (growth) workforce,” Insomniac stated on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
Insomniac stated the private info of its workers, former workers and impartial contractors had been stolen.
“We proceed working shortly to find out what information was impacted. This expertise has been extraordinarily distressing for us,” it stated.
In September, hackers launched movies of the following instalment of “Grand Theft Auto”, the favored online game franchise developed by Rockstar Video games.
Essentially the most extreme case got here in 2021, when hackers made off with the supply code – the basic structure – of the video games Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 from Polish writer CD Projekt RED.
