The japanese game producer Nintendo admits 300,000 accounts under the company’s services has been hacked.
During the first security breach in april was about 160 000 accounts compromised.
Since it is managed hackers to gain access to around 140,000 accounts.
the Hackers had access to personal information such as birthdays and e-mail addresses, but not credit card information.
– We apologise sincerely to create problems and worries among our customers, ” says Nintendo in a message.
Herein loves it also, that the company will ‘increase security’ with the aim ’to prevent something similar from happening again’.
the Hackers have gained access to the Nintendo id-information related to the consoles the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.
from there they have gone on to Nintendo accounts, which can be used for purchases at the company’s online store.
Svindelindkøb from hacked accounts represent only a fraction of Nintendo’s total sales, it shall notify the company.
Here promises to give the victims compensation, if they have not already got it.
Nintendo has had strong sales of its popular Switch-console and best selling game titles such as ‘Animal Crossing’, which has seen an increased demand, while the players have had to sit at home during the coronakrisen.
In its latest fiscal year, lifted the Nintendo sales by seven percent to approximately 70 billion dollars.
It showed the accounts for the period 2019/20, which ran to the end of march.
‘Pokémon Sword’ and ‘Pokémon Shield’ are also some of the titles that have had great success with the japanese company.