Hackers have gained access to 160,000 Nintendo user accounts, wherein evildoers apparently used gamers\u2019 balance and registered credit cards or PayPal to illegally make purchases in My Nintendo Store or Nintendo eShop.<\/p>\n
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The Japanese video game company announced the breach on June 9 in a blog post<\/a>, confirming that there was an illegal login to some Nintendo accounts via Nintendo Network ID (NNID) using a spoofed login. The announcement was an update to the April hack when the company indicated that approximately 140,000 accounts were compromised.<\/p>\n After getting unauthorized access to the accounts, criminals could view details such as users\u2019 nicknames, date of birth, country\/region, and email addresses. The company claimed that there was no users\u2019 credit card number among the information that may have been viewed by third parties.<\/p>\n Overall, less than 1% of all NNIDs globally may have been logged in without authorization, according to the company. At this point, Nintendo is in the process of refunding, with most customers having been already refunded.<\/p>\n In a separate announcement, Nintendo UK assured<\/a> users that \u201cthere is currently no evidence pointing towards a breach of Nintendo\u2019s databases, servers, or services.\u201d The company, however, said that it will not reveal more information about the methods hackers used to gain unauthorized access.<\/p>\n In recent months, cybercriminals seem to have focused on video game players. Earlier this year, the Chinese Winnti hacking group launched attacks<\/a> against South Korean games company Gravity. Gravity stands behind Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) Ragnarok Online.<\/p>\n Just recently, an updated version of the AnarchyGrabber trojan began circulating the Internet<\/a> posing a threat to the communication app Discord users. The malware is reportedly geared to steal users\u2019 passwords and tokens, disable two-factor authentication (2FA), and even spread the attack on a victim\u2019s contacts.<\/p>\n The malware had already been around for some time, and mostly affected users\u2019 account main points, transferring the collected tokens to third-party servers, as well as changed device folders. The modified version\u2019s features now enable cybercriminals to steal users\u2019 plain text password and command an infected client to spread the malicious program to a victim\u2019s contacts on Discord.<\/p>\n Follow us on\u00a0<\/b>Twitter<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>Facebook<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and join our\u00a0<\/b>Telegram channel<\/b><\/a>\u00a0to know what\u2019s up with crypto and why it\u2019s important.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hackers have gained access to 160,000 Nintendo user accounts, wherein evildoers apparently used gamers\u2019 balance and registered credit cards or PayPal to illegally make purchases in My Nintendo Store or Nintendo eShop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,976,182],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacks","tag-paypal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"893","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Third Parties Got Access to Users\u2019 Personal Data But Not Credit Card Number<\/h2>\n
Video Game Players are Under Hacker Attack<\/h2>\n