Multiple Pokémon Apps Taken Offline After PHP Cyber Attack
Thursday, October 22, 2026. Pokémon HOME, Pokémon Champions, and Pokémon Sleep were taken offline for emergency maintenance yesterday. This disruption followed the discovery of two critical vulnerabilities within the PHP programming language that affected various websites and major Japanese games.
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Multiple Pokémon Apps Taken Offline After PHP Cyber Attack
Pokémon HOME, Pokémon Champions, and Pokémon Sleep were all taken offline yesterday amidst the PHP cyber attacks that have affected huge swathes of websites. PHP programming language is used on a huge range of websites and apps, and was yesterday found to contain two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited. As per the National Cyber […] The post Multiple Pokémon Apps Taken Offline After P
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Pokemon, Umamusume and other major games taken offline over critical PHP vulnerability
Pokemon titles and other major Japanese games have been taken offline for emergency maintenance due to critical PHP vulnerabilities.
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