Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts

Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information.

Apart from emails, exposed data includes account creation date, last login timestamp, number of logins, and the IP address used at the last login.

Capcom found that for a small subset of 43 accounts, dates of birth, gender, nicknames, and countries were also exposed.

For another subset of 196 accounts, the hackers changed the CAPCOM ID login passwords in an attempt to lock the owners out, but the company took action and reset them.

In an alert today, the gaming company says that passwords for all other registered members have not been exposed and that credit card information remained unaffected.

Capcom is a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for franchises such as Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, and Mega Man. The company has 4,000 employees and an annual revenue of $1.24 billion.