Japanese game company Capcom was the target of a massive cyberattack. Criminals managed to get hold of a whopping 1TB worth of sensitive company data. Besides personal employee credentials, the hackers shared exciting game details.
The attack on Capcom follows the exact strategy as the recent ransomware attack against Ubisoft. For now, the criminals only shared data worth 60GBs. All information comes from this relatively small batch. You can make out your own idea just how much more crucial company data is in the remaining hundreds of gigabytes.
For legal reasons, we will not link directly to the leaked data, but we can talk about details that came from it (via Reddit). Namely, games. First up, we have Resident Evil Village. The highly anticipated next major installment of the cult survival-horror franchise. According to the leak, Village will launch next April on current and next-gen consoles. Capcom will supposedly release a demo beforehand.
Next up, we learn that the recently unveiled Switch-only Monster Hunter Rise will also launch on PC. PlayStation and Xbox users won’t get it, though. It seems, Nintendo made a console-exclusivity deal with Capcom. Rise launches on the Switch in March, and in October on PC.
But that’s not all for Monster Hunter. The leak also states that Monster Hunter Stories 2 is happening. Once again for the Switch and PC. You can expect to see the game in stores in June 2021.
Furthermore, a new Ace Attorney collection is also supposedly headed for the Switch and PlayStation. Besides the 3 main games, the collection also includes the two The Great Ace Attorney games that never made it out of Japan before.
The Capcom ransomware attack and subsequent leak further share interesting details about the business side of things. Apparently, Capcom received a whole $5 Million from Sony for the PSVR-exclusive Resident Evil 7 VR mode. Even crazier, Google is said to have paid $10 Million to just get RE7 & RE8 on Stadia.
Capcom already confirmed the hack in an official press release. But understandably didn’t comment on any of the leaks.
