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Developers of Street Fighter & Resident Evil: Capcom Hacked; 500,000 Accounts Compromised

January 11th, 2013 Waqas Hacking News 0 comments
Developers of Street Fighter & Resident Evil: Capcom Hacked; 500,000 Accounts Compromised
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Capcom Co., Ltd , is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Mega Man, Resident Evil and Street Fighter got hacked today and in result more then 500,000 of its user accounts are at the risk of being leaked or used by hackers. 

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Gameranx reports that the company offers subscription in Japan through their COG service (Capcom Online Games). According to this press release, COG’s Monster Hunter Frontier ID servers were slammed on January 10th with over 500,000 attempts to reset passwords to a large number of accounts. According to an investigation from Capcom’s security contractor, Ahnlab, Inc, there was not a leak of information. However, due to the nature of the attacks, they are asking that all players reset their password and verify some information.

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This is a routine situation for online gaming but unfortunately, it looks like it spells doom for people playing Monster Hunter Frontier outside of Japan. In addition to the password reset, customers must also provide their name, date of birth, the postal code they registered with (that has to be in Japan), and their e-mail. Because Monster Hunter Frontier requires a location within Japan to play, many players almost randomly select a postal code. So, they will no longer be able to play their accounts because it is impossible for them to figure out which zip code they used to register their original account. Monster Hunter Frontier is currently available on the X-Box 360 and on PC in Japan only.

[Via: Gameranx]

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