CD Projekt Red , the Polish developer best known for its work on The Witcher series , released a short statement on its twitter feed today claiming that early work from its next title , Cyberpunk 2077 , has been compromised . The statement suggests that the individual or individuals in question are holding the developer r ansom Attack.Ransom for an undisclosed figure , threatening to release the early game files out into the public if their d emands Attack.Ransom are not met . CD Projekt Red has made it clear that it will not meet the hacker ( s ) d emands, Attack.Ransom and that `` the appropriate legal authorities will be informed about the situation '' . Motherboard reached out for a comment from the developer , which said : `` This is real . The tweet is all we have to say . '' However , it 's hard not to remain skeptical still , since E3—the annual industry event where many developers choose to first reveal their games—is just around the corner , and revealing a game called Cyberpunk 2077 via some kind of elaborate , fake hack , would be a fitting stunt . For what it 's worth , we have not seen any game assets floating around pastebin or in the online circles where stuff like this is usually dumped . Whether it was planning to or not for E3 , this means that we are likely to see content for Cyberpunk 2077 arrive in the near future , though CD Projekt Red has made it clear that anything released from the hackers is not `` representative of the current vision of the game . '' Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world sci-fi RPG and , announced way back in 2012 , but does n't have a release date at this point . Anticipation is high coming off the back of The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt 's critical and commercial success , though . This is not the first time a games developer has run into this type of situation . Back in 2003 , Axel Gembe managed to hack Valve 's network , and got his hands on the source code for Half-Life 2 more than a year ahead of its release date . Though in that instance , Axel claimed to have been a genuine fan and said that Valve was his `` favourite developer '' —he even emailed Valve 's co-founder Gabe Newell to apologize and hoped he could get a job out of it ( spoiler : he did n't ) . There was also George `` Geohot '' Hotz , the man who hacked the PlayStation 3—and was subsequently sued by Sony for it . No doubt everyone will be keeping an eye on Reddit and NeoGAF over the following days .