{"id":18807,"date":"2023-01-27T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/hackers-threaten-to-release-league-of-legends-source-code-demand-10-million-from-riot-games\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T09:57:09","slug":"hackers-threaten-to-release-league-of-legends-source-code-demand-10-million-from-riot-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/hackers-threaten-to-release-league-of-legends-source-code-demand-10-million-from-riot-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers threaten to release League of Legends source code, demand $10 million from Riot Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"otherDiv\">\n<p>According to Vice, the ransom email states, &#8220;We have received your valuable data, including valuable anti-cheat source code and the entire game code for League of Legends and its tools, as well as Pacman, your usermode anti-cheat. We understand the importance of these artifacts and the impact their release to the public will have on your flagship titles, Valorant and League of Legends. In light of this, we are making a small request for an exchange of $10,000,000.&#8221;  The ransom email further reads, \u201cWe do not wish to damage your reputation or cause public disturbance.  Our only motivation is financial gain.  Failure to do so will result in the hack being made public and the extent of the breach becoming known to more individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As promised, we wanted to bring you up to date on the cyberattacks of the past week.  Over the weekend, our analysis confirmed the source code for League, TFT, and a legacy anticheat platform were deprecated by attackers.<\/p>\n<p>1\/7 https:\/\/t.co\/IogE05HaD1<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Riot Games (@riotgames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riotgames\/status\/1617900234734198787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>riot is game <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riotgames\/status\/1617900236172857345\" rel=\"nofollow\">Confirmed<\/a> He has received a ransom email saying he &#8220;won&#8217;t pay.&#8221;  The company also confirmed that the attack disrupted its build environment and could cause more problems in the future, but that no player data or personal information was compromised.  It is not clear how this situation is progressing in the coming days.  Riot is working with law enforcement agencies to identify the hackers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Vice, the ransom email states, &#8220;We have received your valuable data, including valuable anti-cheat source code and the entire game code for League of Legends and its tools, as well as Pacman, your usermode anti-cheat. We understand the importance of these artifacts and the impact their release to the public will have on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,312,315,306,309,310,313,308,314,311,307],"class_list":["post-18807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","tag-code","tag-demand","tag-games","tag-hackers","tag-league","tag-legends","tag-million","tag-release","tag-riot","tag-source","tag-threaten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicsheds.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}