Never thought that a big bang news for gaming this week would have been anything outside Microsoft and Sony and it came in the form of Riot Games, the makers of League Of Legends, Valorant and others but unfortunately, it is NOT good news.

Riot Games surprisingly confirmed today that by January 20th, 2023, their main servers were hacked and just this week, they received a formal ransomware threat from the hackers to comply with a payment to avoid releasing it to the public.

The intrusion let the hacker or hackers be able to steal the source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and a legacy anticheat platform, and has temporarily affected Riot’s ability to release new content.

While assuring that NO players personal information was stolen, Riot Games warned delays on games patches, mainly League Of Legends Patch 13.2 and that a boom on cheats and cheating tools could be in the making.

The source code stolen  contains experimental features that were not announced before and it may provoke that the feature now would remain unreleased for obvious reasons.

Riot Games are working through their internal investigation and have already stated that the entry point of the hacker was a compromised account given out by a social engineering scheme and of course, they will not pay any ransomware.