Warhorse Studios, the Czech video game developer behind Kingdom Come and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings-inspired RPG, has reportedly been hit by a cyberattack, potentially affecting company-wide systems and compromising internal data.
Warhorse Studios alerted players in new social media posts and a more detailed “security incident” notice on its website. The latter included a statement from studio CEO Martin Frývaldský.
“Warhorse Studios confirms that it has been the target of a cyberattack,” the post starts. The Warhorse team says they’re “working with cybersecurity experts to secure our systems, investigate the incident, and assess its full impact,” which has yet to be determined.
“The attack involved unauthorized access to company systems as well as access to company data. We are coordinating with the relevant authorities as the investigation continues.”
“As the investigation continues, Warhorse Studios is not conducting interviews or providing additional comments at this time. We will share further verified information when it becomes available.”
The studio shared a comparatively mum text image on its X account (formerly Twitter).
Rise in cyberattacks concerns tech experts, safety-conscious consumers
Warhorse isn’t the first studio to suffer a cyberattack this year. Prominent gaming industry brands like Rockstar Games, Capcom, and Steam parent company Valve have also faced security concerns amid rising artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattacks.
Grand Theft Auto VI studio Rockstar Games is among the industry’s most prominent cyberattack targets. Earlier this year, hacking group ShinyHunters acknowledged in a post that they’d stolen “nearly 80 million business records” from the GTA studio.
ShinyHunters obtained “78.6 million records from Rockstar’s account with Snowflake, a large corporate data management company,” a ShinyHunters representative told Reuters in April. The report alleges Rockstar’s Snowflake data “was accessed via a compromise of data from Anodot, an AI-powered business analytics platform.”
Street Fighter and Resident Evil studio Capcom notified customers last week that a data breach affected nearly 12 million global gamer records. Capcom said “unauthorized access by a third party” compromised customer information such as email addresses and “system-specific identifier information.”
According to Capcom’s notice, these “system-specific” details include “[d]ate and time of account creation, date and time of last login, number of logins,” and even “client IP address used during last login.”
Capcom also confirmed that third-party infiltrators changed nearly 200 players’ passwords without authorization, though the brand says it has already reset those affected. The developer said players’ credit card information was not affected. Forty-three Capcom user accounts’ “[r]ecords of date of birth, gender, country/region, and nickname” were also affected.
Over the summer, Reuters published a list of U.S.-based companies that suffered “AI-driven cyberattacks and ransomware that steal sensitive data and disrupt operations.”
The earliest reported incident affected Nike on January 26; Reuters says ransomware group World Leaks confirmed it had released “1.4 terabytes of data” from the sportswear brand.
Crunchbase, Panera, and digital dating services Match and Bumble were among companies affected in January 2026 alone.
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