11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach

Japanese gaming company Capcom has disclosed a data breach impacting 11 million email addresses and the personal information of a small number of individuals.

The incident, the gaming giant says, was discovered on October 19 and involved unauthorized access to CAPCOM ID, its shared service used for accessing online services and for playing online games.

During the intrusion, the hackers stole the email addresses of 11,774,247 people, along with account data such as creation date, last login date, number of logins, and the last login’s IP address.

For 43 of the affected customers, the hackers also compromised dates of birth, gender information, country/region details, and nicknames.

Additionally, Capcom determined that the attackers changed the CAPCOM ID account passwords for 196 of the affected users. The company says that no user passwords were compromised and that it has already reset the passwords for the affected accounts.

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