Dynamic Forces and its comic book imprint Dynamite Entertainment where the target of a cyberattack this past week. A notification of the situation was sent out via email Sunday morning to past and previous customers of both sites.

Dynamic Forces, known for their online store filled with exclusives and deals you cannot find anywhere else. Plus they are well-known for offering DF Exclusive sketch variant covers from superstar artist Ken Haeser.

Dynamite primarily publishes adaptations of franchises from other media, such as Army of Darkness, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The Shadow, and many more. They also have high profile creators attached to their titles, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Greg Pak, Matt Wagner and others.

The following is from the email sent by Dynamic Forces this morning, which can also be found at both their website and that of Dynamite Entertainment.

Dear Customer,

We regret to inform you that on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, at approximately 11:00am, Dynamic Forces, Inc. was the victim of a cyberattack resulting in a potential security breach of our files. Among those files were customer names, addresses, and billing information including credit card numbers. We discovered what appeared to be a breach after a routine system check on Thursday, November 10, 2016. As a precaution, our team immediately closed our online stores and notified the proper authorities. A thorough investigation is underway by our security teams and the FBI, but our webstore remains closed until we are certain we can securely conduct business.

As always, please report any fraudulent credit card charges to your banking institution. Please review this site regarding unauthorized transactions: http://www.consumer-action.org/english/articles/questions_and_answers_about_credit_card_fraud/

We at Dynamic Forces deeply apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused and we promise to remain highly vigilant for any crimes against us and our customers.

Sites affected: www.dynamicforces.com, www.dynamite.com

Customer files exposed: Names, billing and shipping address, credit card information

Date and times of the attack: November 9, 2016 8:00am to 11:00 EDT

Action taken: Webstore shutdown. IT immediately contacted the FBI, followed by the removal of all “stored” credit card information designed to ease repeat transactions. Each program and script is in the process of a security check. All passwords have been changed.

ABOUT DYNAMIC FORCES

The Comic Industry’s leader in pop entertainment and collectibles!

DF is the comic book and collectible industry’s top producer of limited edition and autographed memorabilia, including comic books, lithographs, as well as functioning as a packager of comics, and having ranked as high as one of the top 5 suppliers of Diamond Comic Distributors, and a premiere comic and entertainment supplier for United States and International TV Shopping Channels (including being instrumental in QVC US’ Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Movie and DVD Release), having placed key items in QVC’s Batman: Begins Movie shows and more!

Active and previous licenses include: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Aspen Entertainment MLT Incorporated, Top Cow Productions, Universal Studios Hit series Battlestar Galactica, and Classic Battlestar Galactica, Xena, and Darkman, Revolution Studios’ Hellboy, MGM’s Army of Darkness, Pressman Films’ The Crow, Sony Pictures’ Underworld, T2, Hasbro’s G.I.Joe, Sandy Frank Productions’ Battle of the Planets (G-Force), Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar, Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg!, Frank Miller’s Sin City, Walter Simonson’s Starslammers, Classic Media’s Lone Ranger, Magnus Robot Figher and Solar, Man of the Atom – and many other entertainment industry giants. DF continues to set the pace in the comic collector and comic memorabilia markets. Recent product line expansions includes: action figures, vinyl and poly resin statues, tin collectibles, mini-deformed characters, lunchboxes, trading cards, lithographs, giclees, apparel and much more!

ABOUT DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

DYNAMITE was founded in 2004 and is home to several best-selling properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Vampirella, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, Game of Thrones, SEAL Team Six and more!

Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over 3,000 characters (which includes Warren, Harris Comics, Charlton, and Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, Purgatori, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt.

In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles and best-selling comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high profile creators in comics and entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner and a host of up and coming new talent!

DYNAMITE is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book publishers and several of their titles – including Alex Ross and Jim Krueger’s PROJECT SUPERPOWERS – have debuted in the Top Ten lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005 Diamond awarded the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006 for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%) and again in 2011. The company has also been nominated for several industry awards, including the prestigious Eisner Award.

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