CD Projekt yesterday announced that the next update for Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until March, following a severe cyber attack that held source code and internal documents to ransom. A new report by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has now detailed exactly how disruptive the attack was, leaving employees locked out of their workstations for two weeks and scrambling to freeze personal accounts.
According to the Bloomberg report [paywall], most CD Projekt employees are currently working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result of the cyber attack and CD Projekt’s refusal to pay the ransom, employees have been unable to log into the company’s virtual private network for weeks – leaving the majority of developers unable to access the tools and systems required for their work. Some employees were also asked to send their computers to CD Projekt’s IT staff to check whether malware had been installed during the attack.
On top of this, the report says the hack may have exposed employees’ personal information, such as Polish identification numbers and passport details. CD Projekt apparently asked staff to freeze their accounts and report the breach to “relevant parties”.
