Resident Evil and Monster Hunter developers at risk: Capcom robbed and blackmailed – media

Japanese publishing house Capcom turned out to be the victim of a large-scale cyberattack that resulted in a huge leak from internal servers. This is reported by the edition BleepingComputer The material says that the group took responsibility for the crime. Ragnar Lockerclaiming that she managed to get over 1 terabyte of data authors of game franchises such as Resident evil, Street fighter and Monster hunter

Among the stolen information, important internal documentation is noted, including personal data of employees Capcom (up to passport data), financial statements, reports on bank transactions, corporate correspondence, copies of non-disclosure agreements with platform holders and third-party studios, and much more. Files were stolen from servers in Japan, USA and Canada

Representatives Ragnar Locker put Capcom ultimatum – the company must pay the hackers a certain amount (third-party sources clarify that we are talking about 11 million dollars), otherwise the stolen data will be published online or sold to third parties

Resource BleepingComputer sent representatives Capcom a request for comment, but no response has yet been received from the Japanese publisher.

A week earlier guide Capcom announced that unknown persons gained unauthorized access to its servers and file systems. She went to the police, but assured that there were no personal data leaks.

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