Capcom is a Japanese video game developer famous for franchises including Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter as well as Mega Man. The former has 4,000 employees and boasts of an annual revenue of $1.24 billion.

Capcom, posted a notice on Thursday intimating users of a major data breach affecting more than 11 million accounts. The company stated “Capcom Co., Ltd. has determined that certain customer information associated with CAPCOM ID, an online membership account service operated by the company, was subject to unauthorized access by a third party.” “Capcom sincerely apologizes for the complications and concern this has caused its customers and other stakeholders.”

The company discovered suspicious activity and confirmed unauthorized access on October 19. A probe was initiated immediately and by October 20 it was confirmed that customer data had been compromised. The organization reported the cyberincident to the police and to Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission on October 21.

Over 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information was exposed. Other than that exposed data included account creation data, the time and date of the last login, number of logins as well as the IP address utilized at the last login.

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