Niconico Animation Resumes Service After Cyber Attack with Leaked Personal Info of 250K+

TapTechNews August 6th news, niconico Animation announced yesterday that niconico Animation resumed its service. The parent company KADOKAWA officially disclosed the information leakage situation after the previous cyber attack, confirming that a total of 254,241 people's personal information was leaked.

According to TapTechNews' previous report, after suffering a cyber attack on June 8th, the service of the niconico bullet screen website was interrupted and inaccessible, and the hacker group BlackSuit claimed responsibility for this cyber attack event.

Large security companies speculated that hackers stole the account information of Dwango (the company to which niconico Animation belongs) employees through phishing and other attacks, and invaded the company's internal network through these account information.

The names, addresses, educational qualifications and other information of current students and graduates of communication-based high schools such as N High School and S High School were leaked, and some personal information of the trading parties of Dwango and all employees of Dwango was also leaked.