Koei Tecmo, the Japanese game developer whoโ€™s known for PC and console games had their data stolen and leaked by a hacker. As per a listing in the hacker forum earlier this week, the hacker claimed to have stolen data from Koei Tecmoโ€™s UK forum and set it up for sale. Later, he dumped that database for free.

Obtaining Data Through Spear Phishing

On December 20th, a threat actor in a hacker forum has claimed to have breached the network of Koei Tecmoโ€™s European website and stole identifiable data of about 65,000 users from its forum.

The hacker claimed that he got his hands on the network through a spear-phishing email against an employee, and accessed the forum of that website. While stealing the data, he also claimed to have set a shell for future access to the website.

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The data he stole includes the โ€œmembersโ€™ email addresses, IP addresses, hashed passwords and salts, usernames, date of births, and countryโ€ as seen by BleepingComputer later. In his listing, the hacker said,

โ€œThere are FTP credentials on the shell I found and I would be happy to share those with you if you bought the shell.โ€œ

He continued selling the โ€œmultiple twitter secrets for their Twitter accounts that they have.โ€ The price heโ€™s selling the database was 0.05 Bitcoin, whereas, for web shell access, itโ€™s 0.25 Bitcoin. But three days after, he released the database for free in the same hacker forum.

Koei Tecmo has pulled the European and American websites offline as a safety precaution and stated โ€œDue to the possibility of an external cyberattack on this website, it is temporarily closed as we investigate the issue,โ€ on the website main page.

Later, Koei Tecmo released an official statement revealing the breach and assured that there are no financial data involved in this incident. Also, it said โ€œthat the possibility of it being a ransomware attack is lowโ€ as there have no ransom threats received yet.

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