{"id":48037,"date":"2025-05-15T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=48037"},"modified":"2025-05-15T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:09:05","slug":"guilty-gear-strive-developer-acknowledges-data-leak-says-player-information-is-unaffected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/guilty-gear-strive-developer-acknowledges-data-leak-says-player-information-is-unaffected\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Gear Strive developer acknowledges data leak, says player information is unaffected\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arc System Works has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcsystemworks.com\/notice-regarding-data-leakage-due-to-unauthorized-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a statement<\/a> addressing a rumored data breach that resulted in <strong>Guilty Gear Strive<\/strong>\u2019s source code and compiled development builds being leaked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company confirmed that a third party illegally accessed their systems, resulting in internal data being leaked. Although Arc System Works is still investigating the extent of the leak, there have been no traces of users\u2019 personal information or account information being jeopardized so far.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/gaming\/guilty-gear-strive-source-code-leak-explained-season-5-characters-discovered-3193826\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dexterto<\/a>, the alleged hacker claimed to have \u201ceasily\u201d breached Arc System Works\u2019 internal servers. They uploaded almost a terabyte of data in a public Discord server, which included three dev builds of Guilty Gear Strive and unreleased Season 5 content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arc System Works&nbsp;asked users not to attempt to access the leaked data due to the risk of malware infection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arc System Works has addressed the massive data breach that resulted in Guilty Gear Strive&#8217;s source code and unreleased content being leaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":48040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-48037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guilty Gear Strive developer acknowledges data leak, says player information is unaffected\u00a0 - 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