Bandai Namco Confirms Ransomware Attack, Investigating "Scope Of The Damage"

Jeeze just get a real job. What a waste of talent.

Wow, all that work “for the lolz...”

I guess major spoilers soon, like the Capcom one sadly.

I wish the best for the Bandai Namco workers right now, this is quite scary.

I hope Nintendo isn't next

edit wow I really went heavy on the I's

They will use this as an excuse to delay digimon survive again

Wow. That’s always a terrifying prospect. I don’t have accounts with Namco but it’s only a matter of time before they go for the biggest fish…

@Tyranexx Eh, Mars is deadly and difficult and it’s a lot easier to live here. I doubt there’s any incentive for them…

It’s really sad when an article about Namco Bandai doesn’t even mention the Tales Of series ….

If Namco didn't backup their data, could they have potentially lost the source code for a lot of their older arcade games?

@BloodNinja "This includes demands for millions of dollars."

@Tyranexx oh my GOD I loved that movie!

Let me guess, they are just exposing the security of the publisher to pressure them to improve their security. That is almost every hacker ever, not buying it anymore. Bandai Namco is not going to hire or reward them.

Turns out all they found were release dates for 20 more Pac Man Compilations.

wow digital extorsion.. i hope they are happy with themselves.. it's basically a form of terrorism... some people SUCK!!!!!

I mean this is bad form and they should go to jail, but first please leak that Dark Souls 3 is being ported to Switch.

@BloodNinja What? It's called ransomware because it's like ransom...they usually do get paid the millions of dollars too so they get control of their systems back.

Happened to one of the main water plants here in America awhile back and tons of other places. The companies usually pay up discreetly it seems.

So not really for the lolz..just lots of cash.

This group must really hate the new logo.

I hate hackers and script kids so fricken much.

The top comment is right, if they got the skill to hack into one of the biggest gaming names, they should be using that talent for real jobs.

@Liam_Doolan "Appears To Have Be Hacked"? I think that was supposed to be Appears to have been hacked? 🤔

Also mega oofy. Some people are money grubbing so and so's a lot of the times. 😱

If a company pays a hacker millions then they're either stupid or doing some seriously illegal dodgy sh*t themselves

This is like an actual crime.

@Strictlystyles I know. They are capable of many great things. Just they would need to not break the law with it.

@Angelic_Lapras_King

Not a single one of the will have Ms. Pac-Man.

I hope none of the employees is afected by those hackers. That said, Has any information about games been leaked?

@Piyo Here in the States, reputable employers have the following info for their employees:

• name
• address
• phone number
• social security number (which is like the Individual Number in Japan, or the National Insurance Number in the U.K.)
• bank account information, if direct deposit of paychecks is an option

Contrary to your assertion, this data is very important. Especially to identity thieves.

Can't imagine it'd be much different in Japan.

If I was a hacker, I'd remove the blinding 100% bright white BN logo.

Everytme I boot Elden Ring, Bandai Namco logo blinds me.

Hacks are usually phishing or social engineering. That or someone leaving an admin password at the default or an unpatched system found on a scan. There's not a huge deal a skill to it. Access to the right scripts, a botnet or (most likely) a gullible employee and you're in.

@BloodNinja It's not "for the lolz" anymore and probably hasn't been for probably going on at least almost a couple decades. It's "for the $$$."

People like these deserve nothing but a few swift kicks between the legs. Get a normal job, you stupid hacks.

@TryToBeHopeful Both. How about both.

@Piyo employee information can include private data. Even having your phone #, email and address leaked can be terrible because employees will now be vulnerable to doxxing or direct threat.

Deciding that employees deserve this because of corporate BS is bad form.

Extortion is crap regardless if it’s at the “big bad corporations” or not. We already got a bozo here assuming employees will be just fine when it would be anything, but that when SSNs and other sensitive data is stolen. This is why they need to makes strides towards combatting cyber crimes.

These criminals are not Robin Hood. Those millions are not gonna go to the poor, but to their own pockets lol

Could not avoid asking if they have been Dot-Hacked?

Seriously though, these criminals aren't just stealing from the billion dollar corporation but regular people connected to their site.

@Piyo for what exactly? If you're talking GDPR and presuming your in the UK - unless you can show any loss etc that you've incurred directly related to the breach you're not going to be in for much at all. And unless you're going to move jobs shortly after then it's not the best idea. Sad but true.

If a malicious actor gets access to a network and managed to get elevated credentials you're screwed pretty much (in the Microsoft world anyway) if PII/sensitive data is stored within the company.

At least attack companies that deserve it, like Konami or EA. Leave Bamco out of it! They've been doing really good lately!

@Piyo Every company does that nowaday. If you're not collecting any data from your customers, you won't last very long

For me it's not so much about the perpetrator but more about the poor security that let them in.

Well, nothing much to do on our end except nobly avoid the possible leaks. Not that NL would cover any of those here anyway, right?

Right?

Thank God a bunch of resources have been going towards the Gary Bowser case instead of targeting ransomware hackers.

@Kermit1 Eh, if they hacked Nintendo they may find out Scrunt is coming to Switch Online in 2026.

Now I know they're working on little nightmares 3 I'm happy about that because I love those games

@KayFiOS they are pretty greedy with their fighting games though I hope Tekken 8 doesn't have like 10 season passes