Riot Games, the developer and publisher of video games such as League of Legends and Valorant, will have to delay updates and patches to its games after your development environment was compromised computer attack.

The publisher revealed the incident in a Twitter thread on Friday night and promised to keep customers informed of what it finds in the ongoing investigation.

“Earlier this week, systems in our development environment were compromised by a social engineering attack”says the company. “We don’t have all the answers at this point, but we wanted to get this out there right away and let you know that we have no indication that player data has been retrieved or their personal data”.

Earlier this week, systems in our development environment were compromised through a social engineering attack. We don’t have all the answers at this point, but we wanted to give you an early update and let you know that there is no indication that player data or personal information has been obtained.

— Riot Games (@riotgames) January 20, 2023

Riot Games added that the hack affected its ability to release content, updates or patches for its games. And in games like LoL, it is vital as it is one of the most played online multiplayer battle arena titles in the industry.

Big game studios with tens of millions of followers, are a prime target for cybercriminals. Last September, 2K warned that its customer support system had been compromised by unknown attackers to send fake emails to distribute the RedLine malware, and others such as Bandai Namco were blackmailed after a successful ransomware attack.

Phishing, the second biggest cyber threat after Ransomware, has also been widely used against game studios. We have seen an example in the theft of Steam accounts and in general the theft of other massive game services with malicious campaigns that use a technique known as phishing Browser-in-the-Browser which is gaining popularity among hackers.

As for the social engineering that Riot Games says was used against its development environment, it happened a a very popular technique among cybercriminals and we have seen it in recent attacks against other companies such as Twitter, MailChimp, Robinhood, Okta or Uber.

Take care of your game accounts because the bad guys are waiting for you, especially in multiplayer titles like LoL, CS, Dota 2 or PUBG.