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The developers behind the Outlast video game series have revealed that they suffered a cyber attack and that data was exfiltrated by threat actors.
Red Barrels, a Canada-based video game developer, released a statement saying that a threat actor infiltrated its internal IT systems in a “cyber security event” and that while it had deployed security measures to counter the threat, information was accessed.
“The Red Barrels team regrets to announce that its internal IT systems were recently impacted by a cyber security event, involving access to some of its data,” said the company.
“A group of leading external cyber security experts has been mandated to conduct an in-depth investigation into the incident.”
The developer added that stakeholders have been informed and that players were not impacted. However, the company says that the development of its upcoming game, The Outlast Trials, has taken a blow.
“The hit on our production timeline has been significant. We will do our best to follow our roadmap, but unfortunately, some things will have to be delayed,” said the developer.
“We’ll share a more detailed update on that as soon as we can.”
While the developer provided little information as to the nature of the incident, an anonymous source close to the situation speaking with MP1st said that the threat group behind the incident is a new gang called “Nitrogen”.
According to reports, Nitrogen is a malware campaign that uses malicious ads.
Additionally, the publication said files it observed showed that the data stolen included credit card information, game builds, HR data and most notably, the full source code for at least Outlast 1 and Outlast 2. Cyber Daily has been unable to verify this at the time of writing.
The total data stolen reportedly came to 1.8 terabytes of data, made up of 1.5 million rows.
This story is developing. Cyber Daily will update as Red Barrels discloses more or if the threat group surfaces.
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