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CD Projekt!

Claimed by Hellogookie · listed 2 years ago

27m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 19, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Hellogookie
Status
Data leaked
Country
Poland
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Apr 19, 2024

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

CD PROJEKT RED is an independent video game development studio headquartered in Poland, home to over 1,000 employees. The studio is known for story-driven role-playing games including The Witcher series and Cyberpunk, with a focus on technical innovation and narrative quality.

Industry
Video Game Development
Employees
1000+
Founded
1994

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed credential compromise and exfiltration (magnet link) of what appear to be source code or sensitive project files from a major game development studio. Potential operational impact to development infrastructure and intellectual property.

The group claims to have obtained passwords and access credentials for multiple internal systems and projects (w3, gwent, thronebreaker, w3rtx). A magnet link is provided suggesting exfiltration of data, though specific content details are not disclosed in this post excerpt.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Internal system credentials
  • Project access passwords
  • Source code repositories (implied by magnet link)

What the group claims

How you doin? I just remembered some passwords... do you have it? ah, whatever... just leave it here... w3: oJX&S5678536Y8as%23 gwent: GyrS^&4A89x, w3rtx: NIh\*AS^8x0Xppw thronebreaker: AN87*-2047UIOSh78^X magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44134E7ADE0F85E0...

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hellogookie

Hellogookie is an emerging ransomware group first observed in April 2024, appearing to be primarily financially motivated based on their operational patterns. The group's origin and affiliations remain unclear due to limited public documentation, with no confirmed country of origin or established links to other ransomware operations reported by major threat intelligence organizations. Given the group's recent emergence and limited victim count of three documented cases, specific details about their attack methodology, encryption techniques, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been extensively documented by reputable security researchers. The group has primarily targeted technology sector organizations within the United States, though the small sample size of known victims limits broader pattern analysis. Hellogookie appears to remain active as of current reporting, though the limited intelligence available suggests they operate as a relatively small-scale threat actor compared to more established ransomware families. The group has been linked to 3 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 19, 2024. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: HELLO GOOKIE.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 19, 2024CD Projekt! listed by Hellogookieon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Hellogookie

Hellogookie has been linked to 3 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Hellogookie dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, CD Projekt! is reported in Poland, a country with 49 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hellogookie means CD Projekt! 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 Polska (Poland), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Hellogookie'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.