Hundreds of thousands of accounts Nintendo compromise

Since April, some social networking users have begun to notice fraudulent activities on their Nintendo accounts. Some indicated that their accounts were used to play games, buy virtual currency or other things on the platform. In extreme cases, the user's e-mail address would be used to connect to PayPayal and perform credit card transactions within the platform.

After a further investigation, Nintendo realized that more than 160,000 accounts had been falsified and issued an official declaration (originally written in Japanese): We sincerely apologize to our customers and parties related to any inconvenience and concern. In the future, we will make new efforts to enhance security and guarantee security so that similar events do not occur. »

Users have been invited to reset their passwords, register for two-factor authentication and use Nintendo e-mails for their accounts (as opposed to personal emails), which is a fairly standard procedure . Everything was supposed to be solved until we learned that the problem had aggravated again.

After continuing the investigation, Nintendo discovered ENCORE Plus accounts that had been compromised, pushing the number of people affected to a huge 300 000. anyone who was affected received an e-mail of the company, which also urges the incumbents. to check the history of their purchases for the past year. Talk about bad press! While the world of video game becomes more and more multidimensional and that the consoles evolve to act more and more like supercompators, companies must be on their guards in case of attack.

Fortunately, very few people have seen their falsified accounts from a financial point of view, but that does not mean that it will not happen in the future. Two-factor authentication can be an unpleasant process, which brings me to me: Why can not video game companies do not design simpler ways to secure individual accounts? I'm sure there is more than that, but it's a leading company - is it really so difficult? Tell us what you think of this hack!

Source: CNN

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