Insomniac Suffers Devastating Leak After Ransom Demands

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Details on Insomniac's upcoming games, business relationships, and employee records are now online.

By Darryn Bonthuys on

Hackers who stole information from Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games have released much of that data into the wild, reportedly after Sony refused to pay a ransom for the return of those files. The group--Rhysida --demanded a payment of 50 Bitcoin (around $2 million) within seven days, and after the deadline passed, the hackers followed up on their threat by releasing 1.67 terabytes of information related to upcoming Insomniac projects.

According to Cyber Daily, 98% of the stolen data has been released and contains information on Insomniac's upcoming Wolverine game and the next decade of projects that the studio is working on. Sensitive information such as internal HR documents, employment forms, and screenshots of Insomniac's Slack channels were also included in the stolen files released online. Rhysida claims to have acquired employee passport scans, internal mails, and other confidential documents in its attack, but it's not clear yet if these have also been released publicly or were included in the 2% that may have been sold.

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Various games industry professionals have condemned Rhysida's attack on Insomniac and Sony, taking to X/Twitter to express their outrage. Vlambeer co-founder Rami