The Japanese video game giant Capcom - best known for series like Street Fighter, Mega Man and Monster Hunter - is the latest victim of a cyber attack.
The group claiming responsibility has reportedly stolen about 1TB of sensitive data. This is said to include visa records of employees, banking details of customers, and "proprietary business information" from the company's corporate networks across Japan, the US and Canada.
In an official statement, however, Capcom said there was "no indication" that any customer information had been breached and revealed it was working with police and "other" related authorities.
Beginning in the early morning hours of November 2, 2020 some of the Capcom Group networks experienced issues that affected access to certain systems, including email and file servers. The company has confirmed that this was due to unauthorized access carried out by a third party, and that it has halted some operations of its internal networks as of November 2. Capcom expressed its deepest regret for any inconvenience this may cause to its various stakeholders. Further, it stated that at present there is no indication that any customer information was breached. This incident has not affected connections for playing the company's games online or access to its various websites.
Presently, Capcom is consulting with the police as well as other related authorities while both carrying out an investigation and taking measures to restore its systems. The company will continue to offer relevant updates as the facts become clear, via its websites and other means.
As noted, Capcom will continue to offer relevant updates via its websites and other means, so if we hear any developments, we'll be sure to let you know.
[source bleepingcomputer.com, via kotaku.com]
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So employees of Capcom are getting their data breached? thats honestly sad.
I don't understand why companies don't use encryption to protect their data. If it gets stolen, the hackers will have no use for it since the data will be unreadable.
This sucks all around. I'll at least give credit to Capcom about being up front about it, unlike so many other companies who try and keep it quiet for months.
Why? What did they do to deserve this? Sucks for the devs... hope they get it all psyched up soon.
This looks like a job for Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth.
Guess we'll start seeing leaks for Monster Hunter Rise soon. Kind of disappointed, that's one game that I appreciated the surprises.
People are hacking so much data everyday, everywhere on the internet, from individual on up to state sponsored hacking. There’s no surprise to it anymore. And certainly to excuse for businesses to make it so that when a breach does occur, they are only losing small amounts of data instead of the whole farm
@Wilforce This is corporate and personal information. This is more affecting, y’know, their staff’s welfare rather than some leaks about a game.
My brain immediately read that as a Capcom game requiring a 1TB download. 😂
1TB worth of data? I thought they had it wrong as Capcom need to actually release some decent games to accrue that much but then I realised it was to do with employee records etc.
Long gone are their glory days..
@Jawessome Monster Hunter World
Resident Evil 2 and 7
Devil May Cry V
Mega Man 11
They still have Monster Hunter Rise and Stories 2 coming out on Switch. They’ve made a massive comeback. Also how would releasing decent games increase the size of the stolen data? That makes less than zero sense. You make -1 sense.
@nessisonett Proprietary business data is all encompassing.
@nessisonett My poorly worded jab at Capcom aside, out of the five games you’ve just listed, one is a remake and the other are all sequels. I realise the term ‘decent game’ is all down to opinion, but the point I am trying to make is Capcom’s titles lack diversity these days. Perhaps that’s what the industry has boiled down to now? AAA / maximise profits or die?
Can't wait for a street fighter 6 leak
@Donnerkebab well in that case I’m pleased to have made your day! Fortunately for Capcom, they aren’t a hardware manufacturer so I would imagine they have the freedom to make more than just stock IP sequels year after year after year..
Megaman 11!? Seriously? Is this Bold & the Beautiful here?
What has been refreshing for Switch owners, Nintendo have embraced third party support more than ever which is why they have been so successful this round. If you’ve been following this site, you’ll be shocked to discover it covers a wide range of titles available on Switch that aren’t just made by Nintendo..
It’s amazing what can happen for a company that decides to stop playing it safe, isn’t it?
Then again, you’d probably find it quite funny. Just like the notion of Capcom deciding to slap an emulator inside a clunky looking arcade joystick setup and charging money for something running an open source piece of software! What a hoot!
@Donnerkebab I offer my sincere apologies for not taking the time to submit my thesis on ‘everything wrong with every game company’ to you in a prompt manner. While we’re at it, why don’t we attempt to address world hunger or the factors behind extinction?
I’m hoping it will occur to you I am merely keeping with the theme of the actual news article.
You say “dumping ground”, I say “broadening the aspects of portable gameplay”. Nintendo took what the Vita was desperately trying to accomplish and brought it to the next level while maintaining the price of admission as fairly reasonable if you ask me.
@Desrever Isn't their a law they have to?
My previous job got a cyber attack that shut us down for a day. Ended up having to completely reset everything to the previous day's backup and redo all work. It was a situation that took months to completely iron out. Sadly this is becoming more and more common.
@Alpha-2002 Data is money, a lot in some cases.
@RustedHero I have been there man, had to partially rebuild 2 websites in like a day back when it was mostly hand coded. Needless to say I started making constant backups locally. Now with cloudflare and redundancy systems I don't have to worry too much.
GOD DAMN IT! We could have gotten betas and protos and stuff out of this, but, of course, people are people, so this happens instead.
@Gwynbleidd Well as long as the encryption keys are kept safe, either digitally like on a flash drive or written down on a physical document data loss would be unlikely. Plus they could keep a disconnected backup of the data. Since it's disconnected from the rest of the network no one could hack it from the outside and they could use it to restore any lost, corrupted or stolen data. There's a lot of solutions to protect and recover from something like this. I just hope no one is hurt too severely by this. Hopefully law enforcement is able to catch the hackers...
Wouldn't even attempt to go after EA, they have to go after capcom.... I already don't like them
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