Nintendo has confirmed today that roughly 160,000 Nintendo accounts have been hacked, and users' data exposed as a result. Over the last few days, users on social media have been reporting suspicious logins and unauthorised purchases appearing in their accounts.
Nintendo has issued a statement, revealing that login IDs and passwords “obtained illegally by some means other than our service” have been utilised since the beginning of April, resulting in hackers compromising Nintendo Network IDs (NNID).
Though nicknames, date of birth, country location data, and email addresses have been compromised by the hack, credit card and payment information seems to have been mostly safe – only a few users have noted fraudulent purchases being made in
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