11M Impacted by Capcom Breach, Some Facing Unauthorized Changes

Capcom, a Japanese video game developer and publisher, experienced a data breach impacting more than 11 million customer accounts. The breach impacted its online membership service and exposed information such as:
- Account creation date/time
- Last login date/time
- Number of logins
- Client IP address from most recent login
Among the impacted email accounts, 43 records of birthdate, nickname, gender, and country/region were affected. 196 accounts were subjected to unauthorized changes to login passwords. The organization states that affected passwords have since been reset.
The organization warns users to be alert for phishing emails following this incident.
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