Bandai Namco has reportedly had its content ransomed, and in a statement the organisation has admitted that it “experienced authorised access by [a] third-party to the internal systems of several Group companies in Asian regions”, excluding Japan. “After we confirmed the unauthorised access, we have taken measures such as blocking access to the servers to prevent the damage from spreading,” the statement adds. “In addition, there is a possibility that customer information related to the Toys and Hobby Business in Asian regions (excluding Japan) was included in the servers and PCs, and we are currently identifying the status about existence of leakage, scope of the damage, and investigating the cause.”
The company continues: “We will continue to investigate the cause of this incident and will disclose the investigation results as appropriate. We will also work with external organisations to strengthen security throughout the Group and take measures to prevent recurrence. We offer our sincerest apologies to everyone involved for any complications or concerns caused by this incident.” There’s no mention of any materials being ransomed.
Of course, leaks are extremely damaging for a number of reasons. In addition to the individual distress caused by the potential loss of personal data, there’s also the chance that sensitive business information could be made public. Fortunately for Bandai Namco, a purported presentation slide widely shared on social media earlier this week featuring Elden Ring DLC among many other unannounced projects is almost certainly fake, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be followed by more legitimate information depending on the documents hackers may have obtained.
[source bandainamco.co.jp]
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This is shocking, hopefully everything ends well for bandai namco, it's a great publisher.
@Grimwood
No offense but that dream sounds awful!
Anyway that's too bad hopefully everything works out in the end. Truly maidenless behavior from these foul Tarnished.
Give daddy Scarlet Nexus 2!
@GorosBat maybe code vein 2 as well majima san 👀
@Cherip-the-Ripper Kazzy Daddy likes Code Vein too!
Never great to see. They’ve been struggling with this for a while, the Dark Souls games’ servers are still down on PC for security reasons.
@nessisonett This is of course anecdotal data only but Japanese devs and publishers seem to be struggling with their services' security.
Guilty Gear Strive PC version has this issue were 3rd parties are able to change any player's name in game, which crashes their game if they're online at the time (it's mainly affecting streamers and online tournaments).
The game's co-published by Bamco too.
They will pay the Ransom and then charge the players more for the games.
Hopefully Fromsoft stored their game engine and UI assets on there server and it got stolen and destroyed forcing Fromsoft to actually build an engine and UI that doesn't still resemble ps3 era visuals and ease of use.
A guy can dream....
sometimes...people just suck. hope all will end up ok over there at BamCo. i enjoy many of the games they publish/develop.
Putting all the world's information in a place where anyone in the world, can attempt to access it, from anywhere, at any time, completely invisibly, with the hopes that building a better lock will keep it safe certainly isn't working out to be as good an idea as it was on paper.
And it never sounded like a good idea on paper, either.
It's almost like using a system designed for the ease of a free and open exchange of information anywhere in the world was a poor infrastructure to use for secure and confidential data. Who'd have guessed?
@Cherip-the-Ripper @GorosBat It's a damn shame that slideshow leak is fake, I would have happily bought the following games...
Code Vein 2
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth 2
DragonBall XenoVerse 3
Scarlet Nexus 2
Little Nightmares III
Tales of Ascension
@KidBoruto I like that list a lot. 👍
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