Koei Tecmo Europe reportedly was hit by a cyber attack, leading to a data breach of their forum users’ account names, encrypted passwords, and email addresses.
While this wasn’t as significant as the attack on Capcom in the past, Koei Tecmo quickly shut down down its US ( https://www.koeitecmoamerica.com/ ) and European websites ( https://www.koeitecmoeurope.com ) as a precaution.
Both websites currently brings up the following message:
Due to the possibility of an external cyberattack on this website, it is temporarily closed as we investigate the issue.
Koei Tecmo press statement:
Within the website operated by KTE, the “Forum” page and the registered user information (approximately 65,000 entries) has been determined to the data that may have been breached.
The user data that may have been leaked through hacking is perceived to be the (optional) account names and related password (encrypted) and/or registered e-mail address…
