The significant advancement of technology in recent years has led to the emergence of new cyber attack methods. Cyber attack groups using these methods target big companies. Finally, the famous game developer Insomniac Games was the target of a hacking group. Important information was captured as a result of the cyber attack.
Insomniac Games was hacked!
For those who don’t know, Insomniac Games is a US-based company known for Marvel’s Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: Miles Morales games, and Marvel’s Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The studio, owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment, recently became a victim of a cyber attack.
The group called “Rhysida”, which previously made a name for itself by hacking big companies like China Energy, announced that they carried out a cyber attack on Insomniac Games. The team published some data about the company to prove it.
The report shared on the ResetEra forum reveals the launch date and technical features of the PlayStation 5 Pro console.
This data included important email correspondence, wet-signed documents and passport printouts of former Insomniac Games employees. In addition, a document about Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced the character of Spider-Man in the Spider-Man game, was also leaked. But the most striking among this information shared was an image from the company’s new game.
The hack group also leaked a screenshot from Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine game, which was first announced in 2021. That game is expected to be released by the end of 2024.
The Rhysida group gave the company 7 days before releasing all the data they had compromised. The cyber attackers are asking for a ransom of 50 Bitcoins or just over 2 million dollars.
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