Capcom, a particular legendary Japanese video game developer as well as publisher behind some classics like "Resident Evil" and "Street Fighter" has previously had a ransomware attack back in November 2020 said to be a "customized attack" on the company's own internal networks. New information surfaces alleging the damage could be bigger.
Capcom hack now 390,000 potential compromises
According to an article by Gizmodo, during that time, Capcom had divided its estimate when it came to the damages regarding the attack splitting it into two categories both the confirmed and the hypothetical. The company stated that they could verify only nine people had their data compromised due to this attack also stating that there was a chance that 350,000 people might have had their own information compromised.
New information surfaces stating that the initial estimate was actually way off and a new update coming from the company now shows a jump from nine confirmed up to 16,415 confirmed. Topping this, there was also approximately 40,00 additional people that had originally been moved towards the "maybe" category bringing the estimated projection from 350,000 potential compromises up to 390,000.
Capcom hack affected business partners
This enormous shift in numbers, however, is actually not surprising at all, according to Gizmodo, stating that it usually takes quite a while before a company can figure out exactly how shrewd they actually are after becoming a victim to ransomware attacks. The post-incident investigation as well as frequently time-consuming and also not all of the information is said to be typically available instantly.
Most of the reported recently confirmed cases are also not consumer-related and actually relate instead towards former Capcom employees numbering 9,164 and the current employees numbering 3,994. Quite alarmingly, there was also a percentage of business partners numbered 3,248 people affected.
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Capcom releases statement
The exposed information also included documents like the company's sales reportes, the game development documents, official financial documents, and even other information that is supposedly related to their business partners. A silver lining, however, is that there was no consumer credit card information that has been compromised in this attack. A number of third-party vendors work by handling all of Capcom's own online financial transactions which leaves the data safe and unreachable by hackers, according to the company.
The company gave a statement on its official website saying Capcom would now once again like to reiterate the company's deepest apologies for any of the complications and the concerns that were caused by the recent incident. It was also stated that as a company that ultimately handles digital content, it is still regarding this incident with its utmost seriousness.
The statement then continued saying that in order to prevent this event from recurring, it will now endeavor into further strengthening its management structure. This will reportedly be done while also pursuing legal options regarding the recent criminal acts just like the unauthorized access of its own networks.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
