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Official Riot Twitter account posted a thread detailing more info on the attack https://twitter.com/riotgames/status/1617900234734198787

As promised, we wanted to update you on the status of last week’s cyber attack. Over the weekend, our analysis confirmed source code for League, TFT, and a legacy anticheat platform were exfiltrated by the attackers.

Today, we received a ransom email. Needless to say, we won’t pay.

While this attack disrupted our build environment and could cause issues in the future, most importantly we remain confident that no player data or player personal information was compromised.

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 anticheat 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.

Our security teams and globally recognized external consultants continue to evaluate the attack and audit our systems. We’ve also notified law enforcement and are in active cooperation with them as they investigate the attack and the group behind it.

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.

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almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Impact on League's next patch or two:

"Quick update, players. The team completed a hotfix that will include a lot of the content that was scheduled for patch 13.2. It’ll go live on January 26, but unfortunately, we won’t be able to include the Ahri ASU and some other stuff, which we will move to patch 13.3 (Feb. 8)."

https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1617900453215473664

And for TFT folks

"We’ve completed work on a hotfix that includes a lot of what we had planned for patch 13.2, though due to hotfix size limitations, we’ve moved some planned larger-scale trait reworks to patch 13.3 (Feb 8)."

https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1617900798733844481

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by itstingsandithurts

I hope you guys only receive positive feedback on this whole situation, you have been transparent and very obviously trying to bring the patch to live asap. Thanks

Thank you. Not our favourite sort of thing to deal with of course, but hey at least it's a chance to keep working on that better communication thing we've talked about...

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by Proxnite

Today, we received a ransom email. Needless to say, we won’t pay.

You can’t even convince people these days to pay ransom for nudes, they’ll tell you to release that shit and f**k off, so how did anyone think Riot will pay? It’s not like it’s a work in progress game that’s under NDA, it’s just some additional content for a 13 year old game. What are they gonna do, spoil the upcoming game mode to the public? Oh no!

The only real concern is potential new cheats but even then, I feel like league (for better or for worse) is already intrusive enough that even new cheats will be detectable in one way or another.

Being honest, yeah, there is some meaningful risk of additional cheating happening (or at least being tried) when stuff like this happens. One silver lining is that as we mentioned briefly in that video a week or two back, updating anti-cheat with a new system was something we were looking to do anyway in 2023. Going to try and accelerate that work given all of this.

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by Apollosyk

can i ask will asol still hit pbe today?

Last I heard PBE was still likely a few days from being back to normal with future patch content. We're looking at getting some ASol gameplay videos out from internal testing as a small way to help bridge that gap though for what it's worth

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by F0RGERY

I know it isn't your area of focus, but any info on if/how this affected LoR, or the patch planned for the 31st?

LoR patch development has been impacted, we’re cautiously optimistic though that the patch for the 31st will be able to go ahead however

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by Tuxxmuxx

Bruiser/ADC Item changes still good to go then?

Fighter items should still be in the patch yeah. Patch notes will go out later today

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by ahambagaplease

Only the Annie's changes aren't going through IIRC.

Yeah, Annie changes aren't all the sort of thing we can hotfix, so they'll move to 13.3

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by yukine95

Are the Annie changes in the hotfix of Jenuary 26 too?

They're not the sort of changes we can hotfix, so will need to wait for 13.3 (next regular patch in a couple of weeks)

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by n1c0_93

Just say which changes will be included in this hotfix. Like we all undestand you have rough times but just tell us what. It cant be that hard to just name which numbers you wanna change.

Full notes out later today. Patch includes fighter items, buffs to Lillia, Orianna and Zoe, nerfs to GP, Heimer, Kass, Lucian, Kindred, Maokai, Nami (RIP me), Ryze, Udyr and Yuumi

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotSmileyjoe - Direct link

Originally posted by spazzxxcc12

let’s send Riot Zed after them

So mad at us now that we didn’t work that into the tweet

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotSmileyjoe - Direct link

Originally posted by Electrosss_Set_887

Next time :3

I almost wrote that but sorta hoping there isn’t a next time for this kind of thing. It hasn’t been a pleasure.

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by Cloudpot26

Does this include the removal of bots in low elo because that shit is getting on my last nerve.

It'll help with bots, though there's some other stuff needed there as well.

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotMeddler - Direct link

Originally posted by DKRFrostlife

So we are skipping 13.2 ig? If hotfix is named 13.1b (or C) we go directly to 13.3?

I'm just curious for statistical purpose, because it will be the first time ever we skip a patch.

Next regular patch in two weeks will likely be called 13.3 yeah, even in 13.1b or whatever is the name we use for the hotfix that replaces 13.2.

almost 2 years ago - /u/RiotRayYonggi - Direct link

Originally posted by RiotMeddler

Yeah, Annie changes aren't all the sort of thing we can hotfix, so they'll move to 13.3

:(

almost 2 years ago - /u/BarackProbama - Direct link

Originally posted by Artemaker

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