Club Nintendo Japan hacked

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Japan's Club Nintendo service was hacked following thousands of unauthorized accesses across the last month. Nintendo announced that an internal investigation confirmed just under 24,000 illegitimate logins between June 9 and July 4, from over 15 million attempts.

As translated by Kotaku, Nintendo said customer information compromised in the attack includes full names, phone numbers, and home and email addresses. Happily, the service doesn't hold credit card information. Kotaku notes the attack is apparently limited to Japan's Club Nintendo, and other countries don't seem to be affected.

Unsurprisingly, Nintendo is strengthening Club Nintendo's security as a result, starting off with making users' old passwords invalid and requiring them to make new ones.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/05/club-nintendo-japan-hacked/

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FYIPosted:

Good they might buy xboxs now and help box get better develpment

KatsumiPosted:

Cokes Why would they Nintendo? They haven't done anything wrong, have they?


A company doesn't necessarily need to do anything wrong to be hacked. The hackers likely found a hole in their security and went from there.

IlcamorristaPosted:

Hackers are just low life people who have nothing better to do.

UG_UnknownPosted:

Fawk
Cokes Why would they Nintendo? They haven't done anything wrong, have they?


No. But neither have the people at Arma however they still got hacked. It's just the low lifes


Yes Well Said!

RuinsPosted:

Cokes Why would they Nintendo? They haven't done anything wrong, have they?


No. But neither have the people at Arma however they still got hacked. It's just the low lifes

gmlukensPosted:

Nintendo isnt doing great

CokesPosted:

Why would they Nintendo? They haven't done anything wrong, have they?

-YukiPosted:

This sucks for Nintendo, who was already not doing well.

RuinsPosted:

bigchukka Leave Nintendo alone!

But seriously these random attacks need to stop.


Nintendo are not getting any money out of their products and then someone does this, what low lifes

RuinsPosted:

Foolish
G9H Hackers always have to go too far.


I don't see the point in hacking Nintendo.


yh they are failing anyway