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Image credit: Capcom News by Mark Warren Senior Staff Writer Published on Oct. 22, 2026, noon 1 comment Follow Monster Hunter Wilds Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter publishers Capcom have revealed that a data breach has seen a third-party gain access to information associated with more than 11 million Capcom ID accounts. "Suspicious activity" around the service, required to play online in the likes of Street Fighter 6, was initially noticed on October 19th according to Capcom, who have spent the past couple of days taking measures to contain and combat the problem.
Capcom have outlined in a press release that a total of 11,774,247 accounts had their email addresses and "system-specific identifier information" accessed in the breach. 43 of those accounts also had their date of birth, gender, country/region, and nickname records accessed.
"Capcom has not confirmed any compromise of Capcom ID account login passwords originally set by customers themselves," the company wrote. "However, the company has confirmed that passwords were changed without authorisation on 196 accounts. The passwords associated with these accounts have already been reset, and the company continues to investigate the scope of any impact resulting from this incident. Going forward, Capcom will notify customers affected by this incident. Credit card information was not included among the affected information.
As for other advice to affected folks, Capcom issued the following warning regarding the possibility of phishing attacks directed at the email addresses exposed in the breach:
This article was aggregated automatically by CyberWire Daily's newsfeed engine. Original reporting: www.rockpapershotgun.com.
