Warhorse Studios confirms serious cyberattack

Hot off the wire: Warhorse Studios says it has been hit by a cyberattack, and the shop is calling the breach serious for the company and for everyone caught in it.

According to PC Gamer, the developer behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance and an upcoming RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth announced it was targeted.¹ The studio said it is working with cybersecurity specialists to secure its systems and to understand the full extent of what happened.¹

In a post on X dated October 27, 2026, Warhorse told followers it was sorry to share the news and thanked them for standing with the team while the work to lock things down continues.¹

Studio CEO Martin Frývaldský put a sharper point on it in a statement reported by PC Gamer.¹ “This is a serious incident for Warhorse Studios and for everyone affected,” he said.¹

Frývaldský said the immediate priority is securing the systems, determining the full extent of the breach, and taking all necessary steps to protect employees, partners, and the community.¹ He added that the studio is deploying all necessary capabilities and resources to address the situation.¹

That is the human ledger on this one. Not just servers and builds. Staff. Partners. The players and community around the brand. The CEO framed the incident as serious for Warhorse and for everyone touched by it, and the studio’s public line puts protection of those groups at the front of the response.¹

Warhorse’s slate keeps the stakes plain for anyone watching the business side. The studio is the team on Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a Lord of the Rings role-playing game set in Middle-earth, and a new Kingdom Come adventure.¹ PC Gamer noted those announced projects as the most obvious material outsiders might chase in a strike on a shop with unreleased work on the board, and also pointed to player data or no clear plan as other possibilities still in play.¹

The outlet also raised the specter of leaked builds and assets of the kind that have dogged other major releases when early material slips outside studio control.¹ Warhorse itself has not laid out what the attackers sought or what, if anything, was taken.

For now the facts on the record are the confirmation, the specialist response, and the promise to map the breach while shielding the people tied to the studio.¹ Systems first. Scope second. Employees, partners, and community in the same breath.

The wire stays open. Primary word from the studio is the one that counts when more of the picture lands.

Footnotes

1. PC Gamer, “Kingdom Come, Lord of the Rings studio Warhorse ‘hit by a cyberattack’”. Retrieved October 27, 2026. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²