Riot Gamesthe developer of League of Legends e Valuingsuffered a hack last week that’s forcing the company to delay updates to the game.
The hacker infiltrated the company’s development systems through a “social engineering attack,” Riot Games said via a tweet. This means that the perpetrators likely tricked an employee into giving up corporate login information or installing malware on their computer to gain access.
The good news is that so far Riot Games found no evidence that user data was compromised during the intrusion. “We don’t have all the answers at this time, but we wanted to communicate early and let you know that there is no indication that any player data or personal information has been released to the public,” the company said.
However, the intrusion disrupted the company’s ability to release game updates. “While our teams are hard at work on a fix, we expect this to impact the cadence of incoming patches across more games,” the studio said.
This potentially includes delaying the next one patch 13.2 per League of Legends, which was supposed to launch on Wednesday. In a separate post on Twitter, Riot Games noted, “The League team is working to stretch the boundaries of what we can fix so we deliver the most planned and time-tested balance changes.”
Studio head Andrei van Roon has added:“Nothing that would have been in 13.2 will be deleted, we’ll just have to move things that can’t be fixed (e.g. graphical changes) to a later date. ”
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Earlier this week, systems in our development environment were compromised via a social engineering attack. We don’t have all the answers right now, but we wanted to communicate early and let you know there is no indication that player data or personal information was obtained.
— Riot Games (@riotgames) January 20, 2023
