Capcom hit by ransomware attack

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Earlier this week, we reported on hacking events on video game companies Crytek and Ubisoft, with the source code of Watch Dogs: Legion even getting leaked. Now another company, Capcom, has been victim of a similar attack from a different group. The company issued a statement that on November 2nd, third parties gained access to "certain systems, including email and file servers" and added that "there is no indication that any customer information was breached".

Below you can read Capcom's official statement:

Beginning in the early morning hours of November 2, 2020 some of the Capcom Group networks experienced issues that affected access to certain systems, including email and file servers. The company has confirmed that this was due to unauthorized access carried out by a third party, and that it has halted some operations of its internal networks as of November 2. Capcom expressed its deepest regret for any inconvenience this may cause to its various stakeholders. Further, it stated that at present there is no indication that any customer information was breached. This incident has not affected connections for playing the company's games online or access to its various websites.

Presently, Capcom is consulting with the police as well as other related authorities while both carrying out an investigation and taking measures to restore its systems. The company will continue to offer relevant updates as the facts become clear, via its websites and other means.

A report from Bleeping Computer identifies as the cyberattack as being a Ragnar Locker ransomware, with 1TB of sensitive data stolen from Capcom's corporate networks. According to the report, the cyberattack group left the following ransom note and are demanding $11,000,000 in bitcoins.

We have BREACHED your security perimeter and get access to every server of company's Network in different offices located in Japan, USA, Canada.
So we has DOWNLOADED more than 1TB total volume of your PRIVATE SENSITIVE Data, including:
-Accounting files, Banking Statements, Budget and Revenue files classified as Confidential, Tax Documents
-Intellectual Property, Proprietary Business information, Clients and Employees Personal information (Such as Passports and Visa), Incidents Acts
-Corporate Agreements and Contracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Confidential Agreements, Sales Summaries
-Also we have your Private Corporate Correspondence, Emails and Messanger Conversations, Marketing presentations, Audit reports and a lot of other Sensitive Information

If NO Deal made than all your Data will be Published and/or Sold through an auction to any third-parties


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Are we sure the hackers picked Capcom out of major gaming names and didn't just find out that their security was weak/outdated?
I get that the comments are mostly for fun, but still


Yeah I agree I don't think they would be targeted . Bad security would be what I suspect.
 
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Those hackers... Do they think they're doing good services for humanity? or they are proving they're genius? Or they're making a living by stealing livelihood of others?

Really you hackers should be ashamed, should fear God if you're a believer. This is a very wrong crime it's like stealing from thousands of people at once.

And I don't understand why us gamers always have this attitude: "those greedy companies they deserve it".. I respect capcom it is my favourite gaming company. This is a sad news for me
 
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Imagine leaving your network vulnerable. I hope they fire their IT guy.
In big companies IT is an army of engineers and technicians working on many different aspects like security, R&D, support,...etc. Maybe you mean their CIO
 

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Imagine leaving your network vulnerable. I hope they fire their IT guy.
I don't think it is a problem coming from the IT department. Usually it's a user that accesses the corporate network from an outside location, like a public hot-spot and had the bad luck of having their data sniffed.

Logged in to the VPN and there's that.

Happens quite frequently.
 
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