The boss of Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, found himself on the receiving end of a hack that saw the hacker-in-question hijacking his Twitter account and leaking details about a game currently in development at the studio.
Riot Games president Marc Merill's Twitter account was hijacked and subsequently used to post pictures of a new standalone card game called League of Legends Supremacy.
In a series of tweets, documented by Kotaku yesterday, it comes to light that the game was completed but decidedly kept under wraps and never released by Riot Games. Images of the game's log-in screen and card templates were posted on Merill's account.
"Riot doesn't want you to play this game," the hacker wrote, and threatened to release even more files containing all of League of Legends Supremacy images. Ultimately, he chose to give the account back to Merill instead of leaking the artwork.
"Yup, someone got onto my Twitter account. Yup, someone shared some old screens from one of the many prototypes we've experimented with," Merrill said, after regaining control of his account.
"We're always working on a variety of new ideas for League & beyond," he added. "Lots of experimentation that may never see the light of day :)"
