"Riot Games Halts Work After Cyberattack"

A leading California-based gaming developer has recently admitted that a severe cyberattack on its systems has halted all updates.  Tencent-owned Riot Games produces popular titles like League of Legends and Valorant.  The company stated that earlier last week, systems in their development environment were compromised via a social engineering attack.  Currently, the company does not have all the answers, but they noted that they wanted to communicate early and let people know there is no indication that player data or personal information was obtained.  However, the incident has temporarily affected the company's ability to release content.  The company noted that while its teams are working hard on a fix, they expect this to impact their upcoming patch cadence across multiple games.  The company asked its customers to be patient while it resolves the problem and promised more updates soon.  One title set to be impacted by the cyberattack is League of Legends.  Gaming companies and their customers are an increasingly popular target for cybercriminals.  Infamous threat group Lapsus is believed to have been behind an attack on Rockstar Games last September, which resulted in the leak of in-development footage from an upcoming version of Grand Theft Auto.  Data from Akamai released in August 2022 revealed a 167% surge in attacks on the sector over the previous year.  

Infosecurity reports: "Riot Games Halts Work After Cyberattack"