1.6 lakh user accounts hacked, admits Nintendo
Tokyo: Japanese video game company Nintendo has admitted that over 160,000 user accounts were compromised recently where hackers took the login IDs and passwords and the company is notifying those who were affected. Nintendo which “sincerely apologized” for the incident said it is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through a Nintendo Network ID (NNID) which became the gateway for hackers.
“This time, login IDs and password information were obtained illegally by some means other than our service, a phenomenon that seems to have been made by impersonating login to Nintendo Network ID (NNID) from around the beginning of April,” the company said in a statement on Friday.
“We also confirm that there was an illegal login to some ‘Nintendo accounts’ via NNID using this impersonation login,” it said, adding that the company has abolished the function of logging in to a Nintendo account via NNID. In addition, passwords will be reset sequentially for NNIDs and Nintendo accounts that may have been illegally logged in.
The company said it will notify the affected users by e-mail. (IANS)
