Capcom released a new update for their data breach investigation, and the number of people affected increased to 390,000 (up by 40,000).
Capcom released a new update for their data breach investigation, and the number of people affected increased to 390,000 (up by 40,000).
Japanese video game developer suffered a ransomware attack on November 2 by the Ragnar Locker ransomware organisation where nine types of personal information were exposed.
Around 1TB of data was stolen, including personal information sales reports and other financial data, and information on upcoming game releases.
At the time, the company disclosed that the personal information of former employees, business partners, customers and external parties etc. might have been compromised in the attack of approximately 390,000 people.
In an update to the investigation, Capcom confirmed that 16,415 people whose personal information was exposed, with a possible total number of affected people to be 390,000.
Capcom states that for the confirmed 16,406 people, the exposed data could be a mix of names, addresses, contact numbers, HT information and email addresses.
Capcom has reiterated that no credit card information has been affected. A third-party service provider handles all the online transactions of the company, and the publisher does not store this information internally.
"To prevent the recurrence of such an event, it will endeavour to strengthen its management structure further while pursuing legal options regarding criminal acts such as unauthorised access of its networks, " stated the company.
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