Massive hack and leaks at Playstation studio Insomniac

According to cybersecurity portal Cyberdaily, the hacker group Rhysida has published a total of 1.67 terabytes of confidential data from Playstation developer studio Insomniac Games on the darknet. The group publicly announced the hack a week ago and demanded a ransom worth at least 2 million dollars https://www.cyberdaily.au/culture/9931-spider-man-2-developer-insomniac-games-hit-by-rhysida-ransomware-attack.

The volume of stolen data is gigantic. The total of 1.3 million files contain detailed information, budgets and deals for Insomniac games that will be released by 2033 (!) - including new games in the Marvel universe.

The most information was leaked about the already announced "Wolverine" project. Various design documents, gameplay tests, the cast and the story of the game are publicly accessible years before the official release. The data is even said to include a playable build of the game. Various clips are circulating on X and Reddit, which are being analysed down to the smallest detail by curious fans.

In addition, the hacker group also stole and published private information about employees. The stolen files include sensitive personal documents, private addresses and travel documents of developers at the studio.

According to Rhysidia, the motivation for the hack was to make as much money as possible. Insomniac Games was selected as an "easy target" for an attack because it is a "prominent development studio". 98 per cent of the stolen data was published and two per cent was passed on to anonymous buyers. Sony and Insomniac Games have not yet commented on the attack.

Game studios are increasingly falling victim to cyber attacks

Development studios have been repeatedly affected by major hacker attacks and associated leaks in recent years. Naughty Dog, another Playstation studio, was also caught off guard by a massive attack shortly before the launch of "The Last of Us Part II". The entire plot of the game was leaked, which caused heated discussions in the run-up to the release.

Two years ago, hackers were able to steal the source code of games such as "FIFA 21", "Cyberpunk 2077" and "The Witcher 3" from the servers of EA and CD Projekt Red. In an attack on Capcom in 2020, hackers leaked "Dragon's Dogma 2" and "Street Fighter VI", among others. Last year, the hacker group Lapsu$ stole dozens of "GTA VI" gameplay videos from Rockstar Games and published them online. The scale of the Insomniac attack exceeds all previous hacker attacks many times over.