In an official statement, Kadokawa provided us with an update on the ransomware attack on the company's network. The statement addressed, among other things, whether and in what form the “Elden Ring” makers at From Software were affected by the hacker attack.
At the end of last week we received the messagethat the Japanese media group Kadokawa fell victim to a ransomware attack. According to unconfirmed information from the ransomware group “Blacksuit”, around 1.5 terabytes of internal and personal data were stolen during the attack.
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A figure that Kadokawa has not yet confirmed. In a recent statement, those responsible provided us an update about the cyber attack and admitted that the attackers managed to steal the personal data of all employees of Kadokawa's subsidiary Dwango.
According to Kadokawa, data from contractual partners and legal documents were also stolen. Dwango includes the developer Spike Chunsoft and the video platform NicoNico, among others.
Kadokawa assures those affected of support
Even though Kadokawa is a media group with around 50 branches and studios, the cyber attack focused on Dwango's databases, according to the company.
According to Kadokawa, other stolen data includes contracts with external parties, internal documents and presentations, personal data of some authors and unspecified information from the Kadokawa Dwango Educational Institute.
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According to its own information, Kadokawa has set up a helpdesk for all those affected and is warning them about possible malicious emails or phishing attempts. The company's technical department is currently busy further analyzing the attack and looking for possible security gaps.
In the coming weeks and months, internal security measures will be strengthened to prevent attacks of this kind in the future.
What about FromSoftware?
Since Kadokawa is the parent company of FromSoftware players will naturally be asking themselves whether and in what form the “Elden Ring”-makers are affected by the ransomware attack. Kadokawa gave the all-clear in this regard.
According to the company, there is currently no evidence that the hackers managed to steal data from FromSoftware or gain access to the Japanese studio's databases.
Most recently, FromSoftware released “Shadow of the Erdtree”, a comprehensive expansion for the role-playing game “Elden Ring”. The add-on sold out in just a few days more than five million times and thus underlines the impressive success of “Elden Ring”. Worldwide, the sales figures of the crisp open-world RPG amount to more than 25 million units.
We will tell you what “Shadow of the Erdtree” has to offer technically and in terms of gameplay in our detailed test.
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