Código fuente de League of Legends y Teamfight Tactics robado por hackers

Riot Games, la desarrolladora de League of Legends ha informado hace unos días de que un grupo de hackers consiguió acceso a sus sistemas de desarrollo a través de un ataque de ingeniería social y se ha hecho con el código fuente de League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics y una plataforma anticheats. Dicho grupo ha pedido a Riot Games dinero a cambio de no hacer nada con dicho código fuente pero la desarrolladora se ha negado a pagar.

Riot Games cree que los hackers no se han podido apropiar de datos o información personal de jugadores.

En anuncios sucesivos Riot continúa:

Truthfully, any exposure of source code can increase the likelihood of new cheats emerging. Since the attack, we’ve been working to assess its impact on anti-cheat and to be prepared to deploy fixes as quickly as possible if needed.

The illegally obtained source code also includes a number of experimental features. While we hope some of these game modes and other changes eventually make it out to players, most of this content is in prototype and there’s no guarantee it will ever be released.”

We’re committed to transparency and will release a full report in the future detailing the attackers’ techniques, the areas where Riot’s security controls failed, and the steps we’re taking to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

We’ve made a lot of progress since last week and we believe we’ll have things repaired later in the week, which will allow us to remain on our regular patch cadence going forward. The League and TFT teams will update you soon on what this means for each game.