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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YurPosted:

Potion God nintendo really seems to be going down lately, i mean they just lost the battle for the wiiu domain and now this, poor company :(


Yeah, they been going down..

OasisPosted:

Ubi then this? Something big coming maybe?

AustraliansPosted:

SwagDaddyYolo Good thing no credit card info was hacked, that would suck.


I doubt young children have credit cards, if they do, it's there parents one lol xD

AustraliansPosted:

Lazy much?

DawPosted:

Wagering That's quite the loss.


Lol what loss? They've been slacking a lot.

WageringPosted:

That's quite the loss.

GaryPosted:

God nintendo really seems to be going down lately, i mean they just lost the battle for the wiiu domain and now this, poor company :(

neboPosted:

Good thing no credit card info was hacked, that would suck.

LaggingPosted:

MoDOT
bigchukka
ExoticWolfs
Negativity Good


Good? yeah you seem like a real d*ck!

That sucks for the Club Nintendo. :( I hope nothing bad happened.


Look at his name. That's all he is.

It sucks that they were hacked, i really hope the morons that keep doing this to company's get caught and end up in prison. The hardcore criminals would love to hear about the ruthless crimes these bad ass hackers "lol"


LOL AT YOU ALL.
Negativity for spamming and the comment matched his name
wolds for hoping nintendo is ok when they can get there stuff back anyways
and bigchukka...well tl;dr

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Besides that they honestly will get it back why this made the news is beyond me.


You sir, deserve a medal.

SahvidgePosted:

I've never seen Nintendo anything get hacked. Haha.


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