Breaches and incidents
Supercell: internal video platform breached, company meeting and presentation videos copied
Supercell said it was hit by several cyber attacks “last week”.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- Supercell said it was hit by several cyber attacks “last week”; at the third-party video platform used for internal content, “An unauthorized party gained access to the platform and copied some of our internal video content” (company meetings, presentations, possibly showing names, images and voices of employees, guests and partners), and names and email addresses of the platform’s users were accessed. Based on investigations so far, no player data was affected.
- Root cause: not disclosed; the platform is not named.
- No attacker named.
- Supercell blocked access and took the service offline, investigated with the platform, filed a police report, submitted a notification under the EU Cyber Resilience Act and notified the Data Protection Ombudsman; it warned of impersonation attempts.