Up to 300,000 Nintendo Accounts May Have Been Compromised

[Peter_Brosdahl]

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Things have been going from bad to worse for Nintendo as 2020 progresses. We reported in May about hardware specs for some of its popular past consoles getting leaked online. Well, that was not the only thing that got leaked. It had also been discovered in April that 160,000 Nintendo Accounts with sensitive data may have been compromised. Yesterday, that number nearly doubled, with another 140,000 added to the list. The following was originally posted on Nintendo’s Japanese support page.



Thank you for your continued patronage for our products.This time, there is a phenomenon that it seems that you made a spoofed login to “Nintendo...

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[LeRoy_Blanchard]

Great, time to check my account status. Hope I wasn't one of those 300k.

 

[Grimlakin]

Wow screw you nintendo. Unless this was some super hacker I put this on Nintendo's shoulders.