Stolen Cyberpunk 2077 & Witcher Source Code Auctioned & Sold In Dark Web After CD Projekt Hack
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SOURCE 1: twitter.com/CDPROJEKTRED/status/1359048125403590660
SOURCE 2: twitter.com/fwosar/status/1359167108727332868
SOURCE 3: www.cadosecurity.com/post/punk-kitty-ransom-analysing-hellokitty-ransomware-attacks
SOURCE 4: www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276664/cyberpunk-witcher-hackers-auction-source-code-ransomware-attack
SOURCE 5: twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1359568916339646466
SOURCE 6: twitter.com/Intel_by_KELA/status/1359811835218841601
SOURCE 7: twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1359890201686990863
SOURCE 8: twitter.com/Intel_by_KELA/status/1359856145205239812
SOURCE 9: www.ign.com/articles/stolen-cd-projekt-red-files-reportedly-sold-on-dark-web-auction
SOURCE 10: kotaku.com/cd-projekt-red-hackers-allegedly-ready-to-auction-stole-1846241276
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and ? who cares about the code is stolen ?! thei did more dmg to us who trusted them and gived cd red monay then their stupid code ?! thei deserve more then just this stupid small hack wtf. stop licking thei shieeet hole YoungYea, and dont come with oh yeah but thei had only 4 years for the game mimimi bull shit, thei had the base game years befor 2016 and blizzard did in 2016 overwatch 1 too in 4 or even 3 years and ow is harder to create and balance and keep the player base then cyberpunk 1977
@DoomOfConviction Ah, yes, ol' captain hindsiht here, out to tell us how things will be, then disappear because he was wrong. What benefit do you get with that garbage?
CDPR will get a documentary with the name like “from hero to zero in a few steps”. They are done folks and how to fix a pile of garbage, it will be always garbage!
@Gathrail Reese "imitating Epic and their now closed game Paragon" So no different from Sony, Nintendo, or Steam. Yet you only complain about Epic. Totes not because china... dumbasss.
I heard a Reith Lecture on BBC Radio 4, back in early 2000’s, in which the lecturer caused a lot of uncomfortable laughter by saying that he believed cyber hackers, trolls, etc, were the modern terrorists of our age, and should all be executed. Wole Soyinka, I think it was? He kept doubling down, despite his whole series of lectures having just been about dissidents and escaping state repression and torture, as he had. I see why he was so serious now, 20 years later. He knew what was coming. He was right
hello mr.yong i am studying Cyber security and doing a research on the subject you made my work way easier thankyou for the sources and everything :) yong out
Good. CD deserved it
i feel bad for the devs who don't deserve this...
All because CDPR got impatient
Someone is going to jail
Wanna know what the sad part about all of this Cyberpunk debacle? CD Projekt Red is a good studio with people who want to make amazing games. Yes, they became overambitious and the higher ups didn't help that much with Cyberpunk, but we all mess up big sometimes and they will bounce back. Apparently they are getting screwed at every chance to make up for what happened. When it comes to other studios, they are getting chances to make up. Even Anthem and Fallout 76, those colossal failures of video games have never reached the point of these devs getting screwed for trying to fix the games in the long term. Even though you could argue Fallout 76 was done worse but we have YET to see the long term affects of this whole thing. I hope it doesn't get too bad cause CD Projekt Red should not be lumped in with Bethesda who pretty much came out as Hacks with Fallout 76 and was almost proud of it and kept messing up at every turn. CD Projekt Red on the other hand are ashamed of the situation and want to make things better. I guess the good people always are the ones getting shit on, while the bad people barely get any kind of repercussions in the long term.
That Ransom letter note kinda sounds like the hacker is a fan of Persona 5 according to a other content creator I watch.
Hope this counts as a lesson to all the executives out there that make decisions that result in a massive dissapointment when it comes to games.
“Look we just tried to get as many people to buy into our aggressive marketing campaign and strategic journalistic lies for prerelease sales in the millions. At the end of the day, we are the victims here.”
The individual developers and consumers are the true victims here, not the fucking execs or publishers that forced this game out far too soon
Just a note. It's unlikely that anyone will be able to do much if anything with that source code once it's sold. Why? Because legally it's still CD Projekt Red's intellectual property. It's like stealing a copy of the rough draft and author notes of a book. Sure you could probably find a few scandalous bits of information, but ultimately. You'll still be violating the author's copyright by using those notes to create copies. The only time source code like this would or could be useful is if CD Projekt Red releases it themselves under a non restrictive licence.
The source for various versions of Windows has leaked over the years. The only thing you'll get by looking at it is an immediate ban from contributing to any open source project that aims to recreate Window's APIs. As well as an immediate cease and desist letter from Microsoft. If you share a image of it anywhere on the Web.
If I was the buyer ida taken my millions then sent the code back to Cdpr. They might be making mistakes on how they handle business right now but they have me witcher 3. And witcher 3 gave me happiness longer than my whole failed marriage did.
Imagine it was Keanu Reeves
They deserved it
That ramson note was pure fucking cringe. Sounds like some boomer learned some internet slang and tries to be cool.
oh don't they pay you anymore? xD
ohh man guys what are we going to dooo they got the source code ohhh noooooooo
a GWArahnta?
really stupid question but does stealing the source code mean that the hacker has ALL the files that make up the game? So like texture files, 3d models of characters, weapons etc?
Plot twist, all of this is set up by CDPR - a GREAT HACK! Gwent and Witcher codes are tweaked (trojan), and Cyberpunk is da bomb.
Booho a multi-million dollars company lost money no fucks given here fuck these corporations.
I don't understand.. .Why does someone stealing source code trough server , if there's an crack version of CyberPunk 2077 ?
It's a federal offence at best. If arrested (which is unlikely being the dark web) it comes with a life sentence .... Or recruited by the CiA cyber division!!
7:10 I knew up to this point the source code was sold for 7mil, but I didn't know it was under condition to stop further distribution, perhaps cd project red bought it back? I just don't want them to go under so we stop getting updates However that could give modders more incentive to create bigger and better mods??!
That letter from the hacker gave me a headache
I hope CDPR can turn this game around.
This dude did a better job at cyberpunk than cdpr
I swear CDPR is gonna end up as a future “wha happun” video.
Plot twist: Cyber Punk was actually a VR game and we’re living it
"epically pwned" was this a 5 year old?
Lol that tweet.. "it's laughable how many people made a reasonable guess at what happened with no evidence available to them" Whoa settle down Fabian, not everyone is as big of an intellectual as you.
They should change their brand name to CD Project Rekt
What kind of unbelievable idiot would pay for this? If they are developing their own game, the moment the stolen code appears, they will be sued into oblivion. If they are in a country that protects criminals, like Russia, the moment the game code appears in games on legit play stores, it will be taken down. And it can't be for developing hacks because this game has no multiplayer component and no microtransactions. The code is nearly valueless unless you are using it to teach a team how to code a game like Cyberpunk... and it's clearly not the best code for learning how to make a game... What an epic waste of money. Stupid people and their money will soon be parted, I guess.
My theory: Developer knowingly lies about poor performance on IP and makes random apologies with a map highlighting how they will correct the situation. Realizing that with all of the content which was cut and how long it would realistically take to patch the game into working order (while making it enjoyable), CDPR performs what amounts to "insurance fraud" and hires/completely fabricates hacker angle who not only steals the source code for a game that was the darling of critics (over 300+ awards-- before it even released!!!) but they pull a "Ruthless People" and decide not to pay the ransom (because even though the stolen material is their heart and soul-- you can't negotiate with these people!) and all of the stolen files are sold at an auction on the internet. This serves two purposes: it puts CDPR in a good light (they were hacked!!!) and it also guarantees that CDPR will probably never have to develop anything ever again, especially Cyberpunk related.
you take too long to say anything just to please the youtube algorithm fed up with your channel
Does this happen when you refuse to do business with the CCP...?
That’s interesting
I'm glad. Steam wouldn't give me a refund on CyberPunk. As far as I am concerned CD Projekt stole from me, so I am happy to see it happen to them.
game: CyberPunk 2077 reality: CovidPunk 2021
Now it will "run surprisingly well" on Xiaomis...
hell yeah, respect to Hello Kitty! you are ROCK!
I love CD project red but I'm starting to think they let this happen so they don't have to fix the game they'll just blame it on hackers now
Imagine working on a game for countless hours, silently hating yourself for going into the development industry and suddenly seeing it and maybe your personal info get sold on the darkweb lmao
All those hours of modeling, scripting, writing, composing etc etc going to waste because some executives couldn't wait a few more months or years for a game to be released correctly
Lol this like out of a movie, CDR trying to cover its tracks from investigation by deflecting it on inside job hacking. Who wants to steal a bad source code when modders can do a better job fixing the game.
Modders must be bored out of their goddamn minds if they want to fix this game...
This sucks big time.
CDPR are only just beat by Discord by how cringe their messages are.
Cd projekt red got cyberpunked
Humans are despicable beings. No matter how disappointed someone is by CP 2077, this is just animalistic behaviour. By that I mean people who support this whole thing.
Tbh after the death threats, its no wonder they released the game unfinished. And then people get so upset about a game that wasnt ready, I mean, what did you people expect? This shit is wack.
Cdpr have had a hard couple months. Kinda sad really as i think they do truly care and have passion behind their projects and are capable (and have proven) to make great content. Hope later on in the year they bounce back with cyberpunk dlc, updates, next gen version as well as the witcher 3 next gen version
Great upload YongYea, as always, you deliver an outstanding account of what transpired. Personally, I'm a HUGE fan of CDPR's work and honestly loved CP2077. I think CDPR absolutely did the right thing here by letting the world know what has happened as if CDPR decided to deal with this quietly, and HelloKitty announced that CDPR has tried to deal with this quietly we would all be thinking that they had something to hide (i.e our personal data ect).
Maybe they'll release mods to fix the game lol
6:01 - Isn't a "Gwarantor" a monster in Witcher 3? You know, the one that acts as a _guarantee?_
Two wrong don't make a right until the first wrong is never fixed and always repeated, to an expectation of always being done then the second wrong needs to be done.
I hate people.
Should this have happened? No absolutely not,it's a crime. But saying that I have no sympathy for CDPR.
the millionaire suits that run cdpr will literally not feel any of this. the ground-level devs will be the one to suffer.
All games are released like this now cos gamers are stupid and want to shout from the rooftops I got It I got it and all they get is a broken mess and a big hit in the bank account stop buying broken games being released and they will stop releasing unfinished games
All games are released like this now cos gamers are stupid and want to shout from the rooftops I got It I got it and all they get is a broken mess and a big hit in the bank account stop buying broken games being released and they will stop releasing unfinished games
Sounds like LulSec or HK to me
I think source code roaming somewhere in the net would be much better than the company goes bankrupt then forgotten in the eternity. Who knows? someone might take over to make a 'good' version of the game?
My dog did it..she must be stopped
I wonder what EA Games is going to do with that source code!
actually, i would like a Cyberpunk Game in style of Battlefield 4
May be CD projekt Red is trying to get some Empathy by spreading fake cyber attack news?
Who cares if its stolen, its not art. Remember the last time a painter had a patent on a technique? Me either. Its a job they get paid to do. It got stolen? Why devs care? They got paid already
Who cares? Billion dollar companies don't sympathize with you, why do we care about them?
Screw em
wow CDPR is burning right now into the ground .. first the game now this ... damn ...
I wonder who bought the code? It's serious money you'd think that it must be a rival developer
So a rival developer paid millions of dollars for the source code to a game that runs like crap and isn't even enjoyable? Makes perfect sense!!!
TLDR: People think source-code is a _LOT_ more valuable than it actually is. If CDPR wanted to mess with the the attackers, they would just go and release the source on github now, after someone already paid for the stolen version: "Oh, that? everyone else got it for free ;-)" since they didn't do that, I'm going to assume CDPR were the ones who bought the material back outside of the auction. Controversial opinion, but even if the source + maybe even assets (were those stolen?) was legally available online, it'd not have any real impact on sales.. Most people couldn't figure out how to build it anyway (it probably requires their own custom pipeline to do in a non-painful way) and among those who could, most couldn't be bothered to.. For the last few, great, they got to play the game "for free", if ignoring the value of the time they spent getting it to build and run.. As for "custom unofficial builds", there's a market, but it's much much smaller than you'd think, most people wouldn't become aware they exist and of those who do, most wouldn't want to risk a build from some random on the internet (did he do anything to it?), and again, for those few who do.. they're already playing version that was pirated from gog.. As for the "IP" of source-code is surprisingly worthless, both for the above reasons, but also because the amount of work that goes into getting a deep understanding of an existing code-base is comparable to just doing it yourself, and pretty much no source-code has anything really amazing about it, there is no proprietary genial trade-secret algorithms in it, and if there were, it would be just as easily reverse-engineered from the commercial version of the game.
Still who tf even uses pwned and epically this day and age?
phew...thank god i pirated this game
Who would actually buy this code??
So, who's looking forward to Code Syn?
Just watched your vid of you and Mike Pondsmith from 2018, aged well didn't it!
Haha Cd project red you where the chosen one. You have failed me, you have failed me.
Nobody buy that lol
in some twisted way these guys are helping CDPR. maybe "CDPR" they will remember how passionate the fans are and how passionate CDPR should remain or should remain . lol
No sympathy from me, burn corpo trash
It's interesting how CD Projekt Red place their company logo on that image leaflet when they announced they got hacked. It's interesting because I made a comment about how they were using the Cyberpunk 2077 color scheme when they did their apology video, on one of YongYea video, how it looked like they weren't taking it seriously. Tells me that they read it. Now this serious hack happens and they slap their company logo on that image and seeing everyone's reaction now. I hope that company is happy. That's the last time I'm ever commenting on a CD Projekt Red topic. Ever! So clear someone from CD Projekt Red is reading my comments on YongYea's videos and feeding off from it
Better check out Pacifica, i heard them Vodoo boys got some good Netrunners.
This Is just shitty.
The irony. I love it. Shouldn't have been devious and tried to mislead consumers
God damn, some of you people are actually disgusting
Possible they ultimately paid the ransom themselves. It would not exactly be easy for someone else to use that code to build a new game. Most code for internal use is not that clean, and Cyberpunk 2077 is already dodgy quality, and likely full of hacks to make it work.
Well, if it ends up released online eventually - such things are useful for the market.
I don’t support either side but I kinda saw this coming and I find it extremely fucking funny.
The thing is: Who could gain anything worth millions from this? I wouldn´t even pay a million to disgrace my mortal enemy.
RANSOMPUNK
If a crime is initiated in a country and is executed in another country you are left with the hope that extradition will happen for the person to be convicted.
Was it like a huge pile of punch cards?
This is what happens when you lie, cheat and anger so many people during a really messy year of 2020 which completely destroyed their trust, it pushes people to the extreme edge and do unforgettable nasty things.
why didnt they hack ea or blizzard? cd fucked up but they dont deserve this shit.
They are fkd.
Great article yong. The quality of your channel is awesome.
This just in, Cyberpunk developer got Cyberpunked and Cyberbullied
Yeah I feel bad for the devs also.
I can't get over the fact the hackers said "you've been EPICALLY pwned."
If I did that shit I’d say the same thing too
@Neon Rainbow I refuse to believe people actually able to crack a billion-dollar company’s security would say that 😂
@Nate B it just said it was a ransomware group called HelloKitty.
@Nate B you underestimate how basic people can be..
there’s no way anyone would actually say that lmfao this has to have been a fake stunt by CDPR
Soooo... HalfLife 3 confirmed?
Who cares anymore really.... They just need to fix the game and get the DLC out the door. Enough with the drama already!