Cyberpunk "sold" at auction?

A few days ago, CD Project Red announced that they were all victims of an online hack, during which their data or documents were stolen "related to accounting, administration, legal policy, personnel policy, relations with investors and others". And these "others" also include the executable code of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and Cyberpunk 2077.

And what did the hackers want to achieve with the theft? Earn of course. And as it looks, even to. Yesterday, an auction of the aforementioned code took place on the dark web (darknet). The asking price was $1 million, but if someone offered $7 million, eBay-like "buy it now" sellers were ready to sell the games immediately, without waiting for the outcome of the auction. Only about five or six hours later, the auction was over, as it was supposed to be the seller announced that he had received a "satisfactory off-forum offer" with the condition that the buyer would not resell or distribute it.

This is the source code to the 'Gwent' card game.

Witcher 3, CyberPunk 2077, etc is being auctioned today on EXPLOIT forums at a starting bid of $1,000USD.

The ransomware authors said they will not be auctioning data anywhere else - any other location other than EXPLOIT is fake.

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 10, 2021

Just in: #CDProjektRed AUCTION IS CLOSED. #Hackers auctioned off stolen source code for the #RedEngine and #CDPR game releases, and have just announced that a satisfying offer from outside the forum was received, with the condition of no further distribution or selling. pic.twitter.com/4Z2zoZlkV6

— KELA (@IntelbyKELA) February 11, 2021

And who is behind the attack? It is suspected to be the group HelloKitty, which published part of the executable code of the game Gwent on the MEGA archive. What about the buyer? Of course, this one is also anonymous, but many believe that it could be CD Project Red itself...

Source: vx-underground/Twitter

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