Insomniac Games Releases Statement Following 'Recent Criminal Cyberattack' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2024 / 7,756 Views
Insomniac Games has released a statement on the recent cyberattack and the over 1 TB of data that was been posted online that contains information on upcoming games from Insomniac, personal information from staff, and more.
"Thank you for the outpouring of compassion and unwavering support," said Insomniac Games. "It's deeply appreciated.
"We're both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it's taken on our dev team. We have focused inwardly for the last several days to support each other.
"We are aware that the stolen data includes personal information belonging to our employees, former employees and independent contractors. We continue working quickly to determine what data was impacted. This experience has been extremely distressing for us.
"We want everyone to enjoy the games we develop as intended and as our players deserve. However, like Logan... Insomniac is resilient. Marvel's Wolverine continues as planned. The game is in early production and will no doubt greatly evolve throughout development, as do all our plans.
"While we appreciate everyone's enthusiasm, we will share official information about Marvel's Wolverine when the time is right. On behalf of everyone at Insomniac, thank you for your ongoing support during this challenging time."
Insomniac Games released Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation on October 20 and are developing Marvel's Wolverine.
An update regarding Insomniac and Marvel's #WolverinePS5. pic.twitter.com/CMkCCoZwwj
— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) December 22, 2023
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Honestly as a fan of PlayStation and gaming in general, Sony need to invest in cyber security tools.
Sony, at this point, is probably going to be faced with losing a bunch of lawsuits if any employees or other companies sustain losses related to this and any further data breaches. These things happen. But when it keeps happening to the same organization over and over again, it becomes pretty hard for them to use the "we're doing everything we can" defense. That'll work fairly well once in a while. But when you keep falling victim over and over again, and their peers do not fall victim at anything close to the same rate, it makes Sony's security practices look weak. So, the thinking goes, they must not be doing everything they can. Their peers are able to keep the hackers out a whole lot better, so why can't Sony?
I really think this whole thing has been overblown. The employee data is a problem, but the rest of it just isn't a big deal unless we make it one. Nothing of consequence is lost by a tiny segment of the gaming public seeing a super early build of a future game, or hearing about a game that might be released 5 years from now. To the extent that Insomniac loses the element of surprise there, it is likely offset by the free publicity that they get for those future games.
I certainly feel for the people that feel hurt by the release of info that they weren't expecting to be released. But, I just don't see where there has been substantial damage done to Insomniac's business (excluding the possible release of sensitive personal data from their employees).
Cyberattacks seem to happen to game companies on a yearly basis now!
Cyber attacks are happening to game companies on a daily basis. But big ones that succeed in getting serious access seem to be happening more often than we see in other industries, especially to Sony.
The sad thing is hearing wolvering is in pre production. By the time it releases we will be at the end of ps5's lifecycle. Ps6 would have been announced
It's passed (edited) pre-production: it's in early production phase. It'll be out well before PS6.
I think using the word past instead of passed is causing some confusion here. I figured it out and gave you an upvote once I realised what you meant.
At the worst it's a 2026 game. Probably won't be a PS6 until 2027/2028.
Sony lawyers will start to cook soon.
Massive disappointment with that wolverine gameplay leak.
Absolutely horrendous!
Horrendous based on what?
