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Wishfully Studios AB

listed as Wishfully Studios · Claimed by Direwolf · listed 11 hours ago

Today
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedAug 17, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Direwolf
Status
Data leaked
Country
Sweden
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Aug 17, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Wishfully Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Sweden, known for creating the cinematic puzzle adventure franchise 'Planet of Lana.' The studio develops game source code published by Thunderful Publishing AB for distribution across multiple platforms including Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo.

Industry
Video Game Development

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of unreleased game source code (Planet of Lana 2 in development) and proprietary game repositories. Loss of source code for in-development AAA-tier games represents significant IP theft and competitive harm, though no regulated PII or financial data is confirmed exposed.

The direwolf group claims to have exfiltrated the complete source code repository for Planet of Lana 2 (in active development), containing 4,265 C# scripts covering character AI, save systems, input handling, UI, and build pipelines. The group also claims access to the MAQUIN prototype repository. No ransom demand or operational impact is stated in the post.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Planet of Lana 2 source code (4,265 C# scripts)
  • Character AI state machines (Lana/Anua)
  • Save/checkpoint system code
  • Input and UI code
  • Multi-platform integration code
  • Deployment build pipeline
  • MAQUIN prototype repository
  • Game assets and project files
  • Publisher contact information (Thunderful Games email)

What the group claims

Games

The leak post

captured from the group's site
```
{"article":{"id":90,"title":"Wishfully Studios","content":"\u003ch2\u003e1. Entity \u0026amp; Relationship Mapping\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003eDeveloper:  Wishfully Studios AB (wishfully.se, Swedish game studio)\n            └─ Trademark: \u0026#39;Planet of Lana\u0026#39; is a trademark of Wishfully Studios\nPublisher:  Thunderful Publishing AB (Thunderful Label / Thunderful Games)\n            └─ Copyright: © 2026 Thunderful Publishing AB. All rights reserved. (POL2 Credits)\n            └─ Personnel: [email protected] (publisher-side dev/QA)\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAll game source code is developed by Wishfully and published by Thunderful (Label / Publishing), which holds the distribution rights and copyright.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e2. Game Asset Inventory\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e2.1 Planet of Lana 2 (In Development)\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eItem\u003c/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eDetails\u003c/th\u003e\n\u003c/tr\u003e\n\u003c/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRepository…

Sources

Source

Indexed 11 hours ago

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Disclosure context

About direwolf

Direwolf is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2025 with primarily financial motivations, having targeted 71 known victims across multiple sectors and geographic regions. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented in public threat intelligence reports, with no confirmed information regarding whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies, though their targeting patterns indicate a focus on manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and transportation/logistics sectors across Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. No major high-profile campaigns or significant ransomware demands have been publicly attributed to this group by CISA, FBI, or established security researchers such as Mandiant. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation, their current operational status and long-term threat posture remain unclear, requiring continued monitoring by the cybersecurity community to establish a more comprehensive threat profile. The group has been linked to 96 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 27, 2025; most recent post August 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Also tracked as: DIRE WOLF.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • August 17, 2026Wishfully Studios listed by direwolfon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by direwolf

direwolf has been linked to 96 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full direwolf dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,572 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Wishfully Studios is reported in Sweden, a country with 18 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by direwolf means Wishfully Studios appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-SE (Sweden), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on direwolf's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.