Riot Games is a victim of ransomware: it says that the data of its players is safe and it will not pay for its ransom

Riot Games has announced that it is confident that the ransomware attack it suffered a few days ago has not put the security of player data at risk and has announced that it is not willing to pay the ransom.

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The company announced a few days ago that it would delay the launch of a series of new features in several of its video games after suffering a social engineering attack, which it would have affected the update of titles like League Of Legends.

While this issue had affected the deployment of these updates, Riot Games first commented that their player data had not been compromised and what was “working hard to fix it.”

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Now has posted an update via a Twitter thread, in which he explains that he analyzed the situation over the weekend and concludes that cybercriminals had extracted “League of Legends source code, Teamfight Tactics (TFT) and a legacy anti-cheat platform.”

In addition, they have reported that they have received a message from the promoters of this malicious campaign, in which they are required to pay an amount of money for their ransom. With that, have underlined that “No need to say” that he will not pay what is asked of him.

On the other hand, the developer has commented that this attack has interrupted its “construction environment and could cause problems in the future” and who trusts that “No data or personal information of any player has been compromised.”

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In doing so, it has underlined that any exposure of the source code can increase the probability of new cheats emerging, and that has been working to assess its impact and implement fixes “as fast as possible”.

In relation to the stolen content, Riot Games has pointed out that it includes a series of experimental features that, although it hopes to launch at some point for its players, they are only prototypes and there are no guarantees that they will eventually arrive.

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Finally, he has ensured that is cooperating with law enforcement to determine the impact of the attack and that, in accordance with its commitment to transparency, it will soon publish a complete report in which it will detail the techniques used by the attackers to produce this breach.

Riot Games hopes to put a definitive solution to this problem and repair it throughout this week and that it will be They will also announce details on how this will affect regular updates to League Of Legends and Teamfight Tactics.

Source: Elcomercio

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