Cyberattacks continue to be the order of the day in the industry and now Riot Games ran into bad luck. Through his social networks, the studio revealed that he was the target of a social engineering attack this week. This will affect several of its most popular games, starting with League of Legends.
The developer is still investigating the scope of this situation, but there are 2 very important things that your community should know. The good news is that player data is safe. However, the attack will make new content for their titles take longer than expected to arrive.
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Riot and its games are in trouble for cyberattack
“Earlier this week, systems in our development environment were compromised through a social engineering attack. We do not have all the answers at this time, but we wanted to communicate as soon as possible and let you know that there is no indication that player data or personal information has been obtained, ”Riot explained on its social networks.
He clarified that the situation makes things quite difficult to release new content and adjustments for their current titles. He confirmed that the next planned patches will take longer than expected to arrive, but that they are working hard to resolve the situation as soon as possible.
For this reason, the study asked for patience and understanding from its entire community. He also stated that he will reveal more details about the attack as his investigations progress. Meanwhile, the social networks of its various games have also already started notifying about this problem.
In the case of League of Legends, there is a chance that patch 13.2 will be delayed. Also, the planned changes for Ahri could be moved to version 13.3. Riot will share an update on this in the next few hours or days. The teams behind VALORANT and other games have yet to detail the impact the attack will have in their upcoming updates.
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
Please be patient with us as we work through this, and we’ll keep you posted as we continue our investigation.
— Riot Games (@riotgames) January 20, 2023
Other things like the Ahri ASU might have to move to patch 13.3 (Feb. 8), but we’ll keep you updated as we work through this.
— League of Legends (@LeagueOfLegends) January 20, 2023
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