How to Access Shards Cyberpunk 2077

This guide will teach you how to access data shards to crack them for encryptions. To do that, you need to open you inventory: a) "I" if you're playing on PC b) "Touchpad" on PS c) "View" for Xbox.

Now head over to journal and hover until you can access the shards.

In this section, you can access different shards. You can see the shards that you gathered during storyline missions or side-quests and any unused shards will be marked "new"

How to Crack Shards in Cyberpunk 2077

To crack these shards you need to solve the encryption. Be careful as you might run out of time solving these shards because there is a timer that starts after you made an input.

If you managed to crack the shard, you can get bonus and it is ideal to crack the harder one.