Global cybersecurity issues have directly affected popular apps and services of the Pokémon franchise. Due to discovered critical vulnerabilities, the operation of Pokémon Home, Pokémon Champions, and Pokémon Sleep was temporarily suspended.
What caused the outage?
Security specialists discovered two serious vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which is the foundation for many modern web servers and applications. Because these vulnerabilities posed a potential threat of hacking or data leakage, cybersecurity agencies strongly recommended temporarily taking services offline until security patches are installed.
Which services were affected:
- Pokémon Home — cloud storage for storing and transferring Pokémon;
- Pokémon Sleep — a sleep tracking app;
- Pokémon Champions and other related ecosystem services.
Access to the mentioned apps is expected to be fully restored immediately after the completion of technical work and the application of necessary security fixes.
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