Riot Games may delay ‘League of Legends’ patch after cybersecurity breach

Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends Y valuing, says that a recent security breach may affect its content release schedule in the short term. In a tweet seen by , on Friday, its development systems were compromised in a social engineering attack that occurred earlier in the week.

“We don’t have all the answers right now, but we wanted to reach out early and let you know that there is no indication that any player data or personal information was obtained,” Riot said. Unfortunately, this has temporarily affected our ability to post content. While our teams are hard at work on a fix, we expect this to impact our next multi-game patch cadence.”

The study promised to share more information as it becomes available. On Friday, the League of Legends The development team said that the incident could affect their ability to release the next MOBA version 13.2 update. Prior to this week, Riot had planned to release the patch on January 25. Now for a few aspects of the launch, including a long-awaited , one of the most popular champions in the game, could be delayed until patch 13.3 arrives in February. “The League team is working to stretch the limits of what we can fix to deliver the most planned and time-tested balance changes,” the official said. LOL Twitter account saying.

“Nothing that would have been in 13.2 will be cancelled, we may have to move things that cannot be fixed (ex. art changes) to a later date,” Andrei van Roon, Head of Riot’s League Studio, aggregate. Riot did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for more information about the incident. We will update this article when we hear from the study.