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Threat actors are selling the suspected source code for Riot Games' League of Legends and the Packman anti-cheat program.
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They invite everyone in the auction to make a bid for this source code. The starting bid price for this code is 1 Million dollars.
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Which was confirmed to have been stolen during an attack on the company's developer environment.
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The previous Friday, Riot Games disclosed that its development environment was compromised, allowing hackers to access source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and the company's old Packman anti-cheat system.
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Today, the company announced they received a ransom request from the threat-maker and confirmed that they wouldn't be paying it.
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We've obtained this ransom notice in which the demand was for $10 million to stop the data stolen from becoming open to the public.
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In a chat with the security research organization VX-Underground The threat actors claimed they gained access to Riot Game's system after carrying out an attack using social engineering, an SMS sent to one of the employees at the company.