Square Enix: 'no evidence' that personal info was lost in Members hack

A report went up on the NHK (via Andriasang) claiming that Square Enix suspected the scope of the intrusion into its Square Enix Members servers to be around 1.8 million people. And seemingly simultaneously, a press release came out of Square claiming that "we have not found evidence that the individual was able to access any personal information at all."

We contacted Square to, well, square these seemingly contradictory stories. A representative told Joystiq that the 1.8 million number refers only to the total number of Square Enix Members users in the US and Japan -- the theoretical maximum number of people that could be affected by the hack. That's not the number of people who were affected; Square maintains that there's been no evidence of any data theft.

And again, since no credit card information was stored on the server suspected of being hacked, that info is not in danger.