Nintendo confirms up to 160,000 accounts accessed in huge privacy breach - Eurogamer.net

Nintendo has confirmed that up to 160,000 Nintendo Accounts have been accessed in an enormous privacy breach.

If you were affected, your private data such as your nickname, email, date of birth, gender and country/region were potentially viewable by a third party.

Credit card data was not accessed, though as Eurogamer reported earlier this week, linked payment methods were used in some cases to make unauthorised purchases.

In a statement on its Japanese support site, Nintendo confirmed the issue was related to the company's own Nintendo Network ID (NNID) log-in system - one of several methods used to log into your Nintendo account.

NNID usernames and passwords were obtained illegally outside Nintendo's service, the company said, and then used to access accounts and make purchases.

As a result, log-in to your Nintendo account via the NNID method has been disabled. All affected NNID passwords will be reset.

Three days ago, Nintendo told Eurogamer it was "investigating" a growing wave of reports we had heard from Switch owners saying their accounts had been accessed.

Some people whose accounts had been accessed had seen charges on their account via linked payment methods for up to £100 worth of digital items - most commonly, Fortnite's VBuck currency.

Today, Nintendo said the hacking attempts had been ongoing since early April.

Nintendo Account users will now be contacted via e-mail to reset their passwords with a unique passcode not used elsewhere. Nintendo recommends you use a different password for your NNID and Nintendo account, and set up two-factor authentication.

In response to recent incidents related to some Nintendo Accounts, it is no longer possible to sign into a Nintendo Account using a Nintendo Network ID. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please visit our Support website for more information: https://t.co/GMrXr5OHW0

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) April 24, 2020

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2020-04-24 11:01:00Z
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