Funimation's Sites Attacked By Malware? (Updated)

Humberto Saabedra

Funimation attack site warning

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Within the last few hours, the domain for onepieceoffical.com has been attacked along with other ancillary Funimation sites such as the Update Blog, with Google now reporting the domains as attack sites that are distributing malware. The sites are respectively used as the anime distributor’s portal for legal streams of its licenses and news on its its One Piece simulcast as well as general news on the company.

Speculation runs high that the sites have been attacked by people upset at the licensor and distributor for its lawsuit relating to the illegal sharing and downloading of One Piece Episode 481, but nothing has been confirmed. Funimation has yet to respond to requests for comment on the situation.

Update: Funimation has commented on the issue and has stated that it is working to restore the sites to working order.
Update 2: Sites running Flash Video advertisements from the company such as ANN and Sankaku Complex (as well as Japanator) have also been affected by the malware attack, with Google also flagging the video.funimation.com domain where the ads are hosted as a malware host.
Update 3: The Funimation Video domain (http://www4.funimation.com/video/) has also been affected by the attack.
Update 4: Funimation has issued the following statement –

“Over the weekend we were notified by Google that a few of our websites were being flagged for linking to sites known for distributing malware. As a result, Google displayed warning pages to visitors to some of our sites. Upon review of the information provided by Google, we determined the issue was related to our internal ad banner server and have resolved the issue. As of today, Google has reviewed our websites and found them “clean” and has removed the warning pages.”

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Journalist since 2006, initially covering the retail wireless sector before pivoting to anime and manga trade reporting in 2008. Founder and publisher of AnimeNews.biz (2008–2017), followed by a 13-year tenure at Crunchyroll News (2011–2024) and launching K-Comics Beat with Comics Beat in 2024. Now stripping away consumer noise to build independent, data-backed intelligence desks focused on cross-border licensing telemetry, production committee balance sheets, and industrial supply-chain forensics.

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