Hackers Breach Insomniac Games, Marvel’s Wolverine Details and Employee Data Up for Ransom
Insomniac Games, the PlayStation first-party studio behind the current Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and the upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine, has been hacked, with delicate data presently held hostage in a brazen digital heist.
Word involves us from Cyber Daily (thanks, Eurogamer), which studies {that a} ransomware group named Rhysidia is claiming accountability, offering proof-of-hack paperwork. This consists of particulars on the in-development Wolverine, inner emails, information, private paperwork like scans of worker passports, and who is aware of what else. One of the paperwork reportedly belongs to Spider-Man actor Yuri Lowenthal, who ought to in all probability change his passwords as quickly as attainable.
Rhysida has set a seven-day deadline to pay the ransom earlier than the group publishes its ill-gotten features on-line. In case Sony would not need to play ball, Rhysida is placing the info up for public sale, with the worth beginning on the princely sum of 50 bitcoins, value round $2 million.
Sony has revealed a press release: “We are aware of reports that Insomniac Games has been the victim of a cyber security attack. We are currently investigating this situation. We have no reason to believe that any other SIE or Sony divisions have been impacted.”