The irony is killing us. A PC game about hacking has been disrupted by hackers.
On Wednesday, CD Projekt Red said it’s been forced to delay a promised patch for Cyberpunk 2077 due to a ransomware attack the company suffered earlier this month.
“While we dearly wanted to deliver Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 in the timespan we detailed previously, the recent cyber attack on the studio’s IT infrastructure and extensive scope of the update mean this unfortunately will not happen—we’ll need some additional time,” the developer wrote in the announcement.
The ransomware attack, which CD Projekt reported on Feb. 8, encrypted some machines on the company’s network. Fortunately, the developer had backups on hand, enabling it to restore the affected systems.
Nevertheless, the incident forced the company to spend time containing the fallout from the breach. The hackers behind the attack claim they stole and then auctioned off some of CD Projekt’s source code to various games. To prove the theft occurred, the hackers apparently leaked the source code to CD Projekt’s game Gwent: The Witcher Card Game.
Patch 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to arrive this month to help address the botched release of the game, which launched with bugs, especially on the console versions. Now CD Projekt says customers can expect the patch to arrive during the “second half of March.”
“Our goal for Patch 1.2 goes beyond any of our previous updates. We’ve been working on numerous overall quality improvements and fixes, and we still have work to do to make sure that’s what you get,” CD Projekt said.
“It’s not the news we enjoy sharing, but we want to make sure we launch this update properly. Stay tuned for more information as the time draws closer,” it added.
