Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-12-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Koei Tecmo
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Japanese game developer Koei Tecmo suffered a data breach in which a hacker stole a forum database. The attacker attempted to sell the database, but then stated that he leaked it for free because Koei Tecmo failed to follow GDPR guidelines.