[2023] Social engineering attack on Riot games - Announcement

League specific impact:

https://twitter.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/1616548964861612033

TLDR - if the patch doesn't go ahead on the planned date we're going to get as many of the planned+tested balance changes out in a hotfix instead

Edit: For those who also play TFT, same situation and plans to hotfix balance changes where possible

https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1616548791150342144

Yep. We'll likely test changes on the PBE by hotfixing to that, then hotfixing to live, so potentially some changes there over the next few days

Fingers crossed. We've got a lot of people digging in right now, should know more after the next 2-3 days.

We're still assessing. Current take is probably not, since WR development as a mobile only game goes through a different process. Should know more for impact on all the games next week though.

No player data, including your passwords, were affected here.

We are completely unsure on what we can get into 13.2 in the event the patches don't launch as usual, that's why we can't give heads up.

People are on the case to identify what can/can't be micropatched cleanly without bugs/problems, and will be able to communicate that as it becomes more clear.

Currently still aiming for 13.3. Possible that could change as we learn more, not currently assumed though

Appreciated

This is a really painful experience for both players and devs, it sucks to potentially not get content out to y'all on time/as expected, especially when the work is done and ready to ship. We have many people across design, engineering, QA, etc assessing what our options are to get players as much of the gameplay-relevant content as possible.

Micropatching in balance changes, for example, is quite viable. On the other hand larger adjustments (Annie for example) are much less clear due to implications on tooltips, death recaps, and in-client information that's usually updated via full server deploys. Just to give an idea what can be expected generally on the gameplay side.

Currently the Aurelion Sol Rework is not delayed so rejoice. He should still be hitting when we originally planned assuming things get all fixed in time.
Obviously things could change but right now he is safe.

Sorry can't go into any specific details around the attack and its direct impact for security reasons, hopefully that's understandable.

Almost certainly unrelated, internal development environments and processes get kept really separate from the live game wherever possible (not saying it's impossible, but odds are real high there's something else going on with said packet loss)

The types of changes that most of the ADC update stuff comprises is relatively easy to micropatch. The most difficult change is the one to Overheal.

That said, I can't guarantee anything.

Talented ADC duos near your elo

As a Rioter and a player, I'd like to applaud the efforts of the teams working on restoring these services, and to your team for minimizing impact to players.

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