Capcom hacked - possibly 350.000 user accounts and data exposed

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There has been a hack at the Japanese game company Capcom, the information of at least tens of thousands of customers are publicly available, the game developer reports on his website on Monday.



The data contains employees and consumers in Japan and North America. It is unclear how many people were affected by the data breach, but it would be 350,000 data entries.

Capcom was hit by a cyberattack last week in which 1 terabyte of information was stolen. In Japan, the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of anyone who has contacted customer service have been leaked. For the Americans, this is data from an online store and the company's e-sports site.

In addition, tens of thousands of shareholder data, including names, email addresses and gender information, were reportedly leaked. There is also said to be a lot of privacy-sensitive data on former employees and their family members, including reports from the HR department and internal documents.

Capcom ensures that credit card information or other financial data is not exposed because payments are processed by an external party. The Japanese company became known in the 1980s and 1990s with games such as Street Fighter , Mega Man and Resident Evil . The online game Monster Hunter: World is the biggest title the company has released.


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