Security News > 2020 > November > Street Fighter maker says soz after ransomware hadoukens servers, puts 350,000 folks' data at risk of theft

Japanese games giant Capcom, the company behind the 33-year-old Street Fighter franchise, has issued "Deepest apologies" to customers and other stakeholders whose details may have been accessed by miscreants during a ransomware infection.

Capcom was able to confirm this was a targeted attack against the company using ransomware, which destroyed and encrypted data on its servers.

"The company discovered a message from a criminal organization that calls itself Ragnar Locker, and after ascertaining that ransom money was being demanded, contacted the Osaka Prefectural Police," Capcom said in a statement.

Capcom said it fell victim to "Tailor-made ransomware aimed specifically at the company to maliciously encrypt the information saved on its servers and delete its access logs."

In 2016, Capcom's Street Fighter V for PC offered surprises including a secret rootkit that gave away any installed application kernel-level privileges, potentially allowing any malicious software on the system to completely take over the Windows machine.

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