Japanese publisher Capcom has released a statement regarding a recent data breach, which resulted in unauthorized access to nearly 12 million Capcom ID accounts.
Capcom ID is a free unified account system that provides access to online play in select Capcom games, enables cross-platform play, and much more. If you’ve played a Capcom game in the last five years or so, you’ll almost certainly have an account.
According to the company, a total of 11,774,247 accounts were affected, with email addresses being the primary information accessed, along with account information such as when they were created, when they were last used, etc.
Of the above total, unauthorized password changes were made to 196 accounts.
Fortunately, credit card information was not accessed, according to Capcom.
“Capcom has not confirmed any compromise of CAPCOM ID account login passwords originally set by customers themselves. However, the company has confirmed that passwords were changed without authorization on 196 accounts. Passwords associated with these accounts have already been reset and the company continues to investigate the extent of any impact resulting from this incident.
In the future, Capcom will notify customers affected by this incident. Credit card information was not included among the affected information.”
The company says customers can use their Capcom ID accounts without issue. “However, it is possible that affected information could be misused to send fraudulent emails or other communications impersonating Capcom or related parties,” it says.
If you haven’t already, now is probably a good time to update and change your login information.
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