KOF for GIRLS Official X Account Appears Hijacked, Image Posts Deleted
A service that shut down years ago can still lose the archive fans treated as its record, and the account's takeover shows nothing protects a dormant official channel once the operator stops watching it.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
The official X account of THE KING OF FIGHTERS for GIRLS, the Victor Entertainment Games otome title based on SNK's fighting series, appears to have been hijacked. Users who followed the account began receiving notifications from an unfamiliar account; its icon, name, and ID now belong to one claiming to be a therapist. The previous ID returns "This account doesn't exist." Some maintenance posts remain, but posts with videos or images are gone. The game's service ended on March 31, 2021.
The account now carries a therapist's name and icon, and searching the old ID returns nothing. What survives is partial: maintenance notices are still up, while every post that carried a video or an image has been removed.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS for GIRLS began distribution on November 8, 2019, with Victor Entertainment Games operating it. It cast the player as manager of the fighters and ran on romance and friendship. The service ended on March 31, 2021.
Followers noticed the change through notifications from an account they did not recognize, then flagged the takeover. Some responded with anger at the loss of posts they had kept as a record of the game.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.