"Credit card information was not included among the affected information," say the publishers

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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.…