14 days ago
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Riot Games says it will not pay the ransom demanded by the attackers responsible for the security breach the company disclosed last week. "While this attack disrupted our build environment and could cause issues in the future, most importantly we remain confident that no player data or player personal information was compromised." "While our teams are working hard on a fix, we expect this to impact our upcoming patch cadence across multiple games," Riot Games said. The Riot Games breach follows the hack of another major video game publisher, 2K Games, which said in September 2020 that attackers breached its help desk and infected some customers with malware. This cybercrime group also leaked source code and proprietary data stolen from victims' networks, which led to massive data breaches and leaks.
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