A few weeks ago we reported on how the group works KadokawaOne of the largest companies in the world of video games and anime, with a large number of franchises such as Konosuba!, Mushoku Tensei, Ring of the worldAnd many others were subjected to a strong attack on their servers that affected the company’s various official websites. But now things have not only repeated, but their severity has increased dramatically, and they confirmed that they were hacked again, which actually led to the loss of more than 1.5 terabytes of company data that is now in the hands of the attackers.
Kadokawa receives new hacker attack resulting in massive data loss
Through an official statement of the famous company Kadokawa, owner of some of the largest franchises and developers ever, announced that on June 27, it was subjected to a new attack on its servers, which ended in the loss of more than 1.5 terabytes of information. Although it was confirmed from the same statement that although it was sensitive data, it did not contain banking information for users or its employees, although it requested that during the investigation of what happened, this information not be used on Kadokawa sites.
Things escalated a lot in the past hours, as the hackers themselves came out to comment on the matter, demanding a high financial fee from the company so that data would not leak to the network, among many things, in the information they have there are very important things. Among them, they confirmed that they possessed personal data, future business plans, or even projects that various companies were working on under their command Kadokawa There are a lot of them, so if they get leaked, it can really affect their media in a negative way.
In addition, the hackers gave a deadline for the company to release the requested funds or all the information would be leaked online: July 1, which is a very close date, so from Kadokawa They need to act as quickly as possible to solve this very serious problem they are experiencing and which concerns many people. For this reason, the company has already confirmed that it is working with external services on this “system failure” to build a more secure network environment, as well as a more secure server for all users.
The statement also talks about how this series of attacks was committed. Kadokawa In recent weeks, as it is not entirely certain how the company will perform this fiscal year due to several very significant attacks in a short period of time. What has been confirmed is that the company will report the most relevant events of the incident as soon as it gets the most accurate data possible from its source. Official Websiteproviding more peace of mind to users.
As we mentioned, Kadokawa It is one of the largest companies in the world, and it owns a large number of developers and very important franchises in the world of anime, video games, etc., and its popularity is more than recognized. Among them we have the two anime that were shown in this spring 2024 season, namely Mushoku Tensei And KonoSuba!In addition to the game, whose latest expansion was released a few days ago, which is considered one of the best releases this year, Al-Din ringTherefore, these attacks affected thousands of users around the world.
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