Nintendo Hacked

[SpiderStaryu]

TOKYO -- Nintendo was targeted in a recent online data attack, but no personal or company information was lost, the Japanese maker of the Wii game console said Sunday.

The server of an affiliate of Nintendo Co.'s U.S. unit was accessed unlawfully a few weeks ago, but there was no damage, company spokesman Ken Toyoda said.

"There were no third-party victims," Toyoda said, while declining to elaborate. "But it is a fact there was some kind of possible hacking attack."

The damage from what could be a recent spate of such data breaches targeting big-name brands was more serious at rival Sony Corp.

Sony has said massive personal information, including email addresses, names and birth dates, and involving more than 100 million users, is suspected of having been stolen after security was compromised in April for its network service for the PlayStation 3 game machine, for other online services and, in the past week, from Sony Pictures' website.

It is still unclear who is behind the attacks at Sony or Nintendo, based in Kyoto.

Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security – a reference to the Internetspeak for "laugh out loud"_ have recently boasted of compromising more than 1 million users' personal information.

Tokyo-based Sony has said it is strengthening security measures. It has contacted the FBI and other authorities for an investigation into the cyber attacks.

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Was viewing some news sites, and I found this and was like "WTF?". Apparently, Nintendo was hacked by the hackers who claimed to hack Sony... Thoughts?

 

[Toshirohokkaido]

"Laugh out loud"

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Source goes after quote, but only a suggestion.

So hackers hacked Sony in April, and now Nintendo in June?

These hackers need to get out of there, and experience the outside world, not spend time hacking.

The only good thing is, we don't have any personal information stored in our Nintendo systems, but still. Still the good thing no data was lost. Nintendo should improve their security more, just in case, to be safe from any future hacking attempts.

 

[SpiderStaryu]

I believe the hackers apologized to Nintendo, I was reading they said, "We're not targeting Nintendo. We like the N64 too much - we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap."

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

I believe the hackers apologized to Nintendo, I was reading they said, "We're not targeting Nintendo. We like the N64 too much - we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap."

Well, I'm not sure about it, it could be a lie. I think Nintendo once said, "Don't believe anything you read online."

It's a possibility that it may be fake.

 

[cookieboy17]

Hahaha they probably realized there's nothing to hack.

 

[berrylarry200]

Hahaha they probably realized there's nothing to hack.

Exactly Nintendo doesn't have anything worth hacking. Now it's time for the hackers to move on to Microsoft...

 

[Vipsoccermaster]

Hahaha they probably realized there's nothing to hack.

Exactly Nintendo doesn't have anything worth hacking. Now it's time for the hackers to move on to Microsoft...

I think I should remove the credit card information I have on my account for safety.

 

[Justin5267]

Hahaha they probably realized there's nothing to hack.

Exactly Nintendo doesn't have anything worth hacking. Now it's time for the hackers to move on to Microsoft...

I think I should remove the credit card information I have on my account for safety.

I wanted to do that too but I got 2 months for 2$ and can't  remove the card until the two months are over. 

 

[ttwashere]

they took a single config file and nobody's information was compromised. Comparing sony's and nintendo's "hackings" is quite the stretch.

 

[AegisReflector]

cool story bro

 

[H-J Kaabii]

^WRT the topic or TT?

Anyway, silly hackers testing their ability to compromise servers. Why didn't they, uh, overload Brawl or  MKW servers instead of find info to grab? :

 

[AegisReflector]

^WRT the topic or TT?

There's nothing to be discussed. Nintendo has nothing to hack.

 

[ttwashere]

^WRT the topic or TT?

Anyway, silly hackers testing their ability to compromise servers. Why didn't they, uh, overload Brawl or  MKW servers instead of find info to grab? :

Silly question, H-J.

My stories are always cool, bro.

 

[Darkboo007]

I don't blame them, there is indeed nothing to hack. So this is a LOL Moment like DKH stated

 

[ttwashere]

I don't blame them, there is indeed nothing to hack. So this is a LOL Moment like DKH stated

Except you know ton of personal information and peoples accounts.

 

[Mr. Toast]

All of the online world need to buff up security. Everything is being hacked.

 

[Snowy620]

Once again, hacking≠attacking

 

[Troll]

Now all we need is Xbox Live to get hacked.

 

[ttwashere]

Now all we need is Xbox Live to get hacked.

One thing you can't fault Microsoft for is online. They've done it right. I doubt Live will get hacked