{"id":6494,"date":"2026-04-23T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:32:44","slug":"hasbro-delays-q1-results-after-cyber-attack-expects-revenue-rise-from-ongoing-magic-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/hasbro-delays-q1-results-after-cyber-attack-expects-revenue-rise-from-ongoing-magic-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasbro delays Q1 results after cyber attack, expects revenue rise from ongoing Magic strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toy and game maker\u00a0Hasbro<\/a> has delayed its quarterly results by almost a month after suffering a cyber attack, but said it expects to post Q1 revenues of up to $985m thanks to continued strong performance of Magic: The Gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hasbro said<\/a> it identified “unauthorized access” to the company’s network on March 28, but believes that access has been “contained” – adding that Magic’s shipments and release cadence had continued unaffected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company expects Q1 revenue to be between $970m and $985m, a rise of between 9% and 11% compared to the same period last year – while operating profit is expected to reach $235m to $245m, a 38% to 44% jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those preliminary results are expected to be solidified when Hasbro eventually releases its full Q1 financial report, which is now scheduled for May 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magic continues to underpin Hasbro’s fortunes, with the veteran trading card game\u2019s revenue having soared 59% last year to mark its strongest annual performance yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hasbro saw its wider 2025 revenue rise almost 14% to $4.7bn, driven by a record 45% growth in its Magic, D&D and digital gaming division\u00a0Wizards of the Coast<\/a>, the company revealed in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magic\u2019s record-breaking year was capped off by a storming fourth quarter, which saw revenues from the game up 141% compared to Q4 2024 on the strength of the Avatar: The Last Airbender and Final Fantasy releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That stellar performance of Wizards, and Magic in particular, was in stark contrast to Hasbro\u2019s consumer products segment \u2013 which includes Nerf guns, Transformers and Peppa Pig toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That segment saw revenues drop 4% last year \u201camongst macro and retailer volatility brought on by tariff announcements in Q2″ – and unlike for Magic, Hasbro said that the cyber incident would likely impact second quarter revenues and operating profit in consumer products due to expected order processing, shipping and invoicing delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hasbro added that it still expects full-year revenues to rise between 3% and 5% in 2026. Hasbro CFO and COO Gina Goetter said in February<\/a> that the company expects Wizards of the Coast to deliver mid-single-digit revenue growth in 2026, \u201csupported by a healthy release cadence and continued engagement across the Magic ecosystem\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hasbro said it identified “unauthorized access” to the company’s network on March 28, but believes that access has been “contained” – adding that Magic’s shipments and release cadence had continued unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2093,6,135,2303,2302,31,386,37,873,32,36,33],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2093","tag-board-game","tag-board-games","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyberattack","tag-hasbro","tag-magic","tag-magic-the-gathering-2","tag-q1","tag-results","tag-revenue","tag-wizards-of-the-coast"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}