: While Riot is still investigating the full extent of the breach, the company said the stolen source code includes a "number of experimental features" that may never be released.
Riot noted that any exposure of source code can "increase the likelihood of new cheats emerging," and its teams have been preparing to "deploy fixes as quickly as possible if needed."Video game companies are popular targets for hackers, often resulting in salacious leaks of unreleased content, and at times breaches of personal info.
Companies may not be able to contain all their secrets, but players would be best-served to use two-factor authorization and other heightened security.: Riot estimated it will have "things repaired later in the week," allowing the company to "remain on our regular patch cadence going forward." Riot also said it plans to release a full report detailing how the attackers broke in, who was behind the attack and where "Riot's security controls failed."