Resident Evil Developer Capcom Issues Phishing Warning After Data Breach Hits Over 11 Million Customer Accounts

Capcom has disclosed a data breach of its online membership account service affecting over 11 million customer accounts, warning customers to brace themselves for potential phishing attempts.

The Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter developer said customer information associated with Capcom ID was accessed by a third-party on October 19. 11.7 million email address records were affected globally, exposing date and time of account creation, date and time of last login, number of logins, and the client IP address used during last login.

Of these, 43 records of date of birth, gender, country/region, and nickname were affected, and 196 accounts saw unauthorized changes to their Capcom ID login passwords. Capcom said the passwords associated with these accounts have already been reset, as it “continues to investigate the scope of any impact resulting from this incident.”

While the data breach is damaging, Capcom insisted passwords customers created themselves were not leaked, and credit card information was not included among the …