Yahoo Finance Sony studio behind Spider-Man 2 game hit by Russia-linked hackers
A video games studio owned by Sony has suffered a cyber attack with hackers leaking plans for future games and employee data on the dark web.
The incident related to Insomniac, which developed the recent popular video game Spiderman 2. Hackers from Rhysida, a ransomware gang, has demanded a payment of $2m (￡1.6m) in Bitcoin for the release of the data.
The leak of 1.3m files includes early footage of forthcoming video games, including a planned game based on the Marvel Comic Book character Wolverine, as well as internal commercial documents and information on future releases.
Other information leaked from the US game developer appeared to include employee information, Cyber Daily reported.
The gang initially threatened to publish the information last week unless it was paid, before leaking the information on its dark web site on Tuesday.
Sony Pictures. the company’s film division, was previously the victim of a cyber attack in 2014, orchestrated by North Korea. The incident involved details of forthcoming films released and embarassing emails between studio executives made public.
Rhysida, which is believed to have links to Russia, was previously behind a cyber attack on the British Library, which knocked most of its systems offline.
Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In response to the ransomware attack last week, Sony said: “We are currently investigating this situation. We have no reason to believe any other Sony Interactive Entertainment or Sony divisions have been impacted.”