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 were exposed in a ransomware attack.
As many as 350,000 individuals, including customers and employees, may have had their personal details compromised in the attack, which is said to have originated from a "criminal organisation that calls itself Ragnar Locker."
The games developer, which is also behind popular hits Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, said it detected connectivity issues with its internal network in the early hours of 2 November. Shortly afterwards, it shut down systems and began investigating the incident.
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 ..
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