After Nvidia, Samsung, Mercado Libre or Vodafone, the group of cybercriminals “Lapsus$” attacks Ubisoft. The French video game leader has admitted to having been affected by a cybersecurity incident. For now, The Verge specifies that no data leak has been detected.
The French video game giant has been hacked
In a press release issued on March 10, 2022, Ubisoft specifies that a “cybersecurity incident that caused a temporary disruption to some of our games, systems and services”. The company’s IT teams are currently working with leading external experts to try to understand the facts. As a precaution, Ubisoft specifies that it has launched a password reset for all members of the company. Without trying to minimize the facts, Ubisoft is not very talkative.
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The French company wants to be reassuring and specifies that “We can confirm that all of our games and services are functioning normally and that at this time there is no evidence that any players’ personal information was accessed or exposed as a result of this incident”. We will have to be vigilant in the coming days and analyze the dark web forums to be able to confirm this information. The group Lapsus$ is behind this attack. The group of cybercriminals diversifies its targets.
Will the hackers demand a ransom from Ubisoft?
The Nvidia and Samsung groups have recently been victims of this same organization. For Nvidia, the incident quickly led to the dissemination of sensitive data. Cybercriminals have also demanded the removal of the “Lite Cash Rate” (LHR). Lapsus$ declares to want “to help the community of miners and players” by forcing Nvidia to remove the limitations of the LHR via an update. Funny counterpart.
On the Samsung side, nearly 190 GB of data was stolen. According to the company, the leak concerns part of the source code relating to Galaxy smartphones. The cybercriminals reportedly demanded a ransom to the South Korean group, but the Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) considers the leaked information not to be key industrial resources. At Ubisoft, Lapsus$ probably did not use ransomware.