Sunday, July 7, 2013

23,000 accounts hacked Club Nintendo - PC Actual

along this week we reported that the French company Ubisoft video game had been the center of an attack that exposed the accounts of its users, now is the turn of Nintendo who has confirmed access to 23,000 accounts of its users Club Nintendo platform .

The company noticed a significant increase in the number of errors during access to the web by the intended users, something that led to an investigation by the company resulting in the discovery of the attack you were viewing subjected since last June 9 and has been extended until July 4, almost a month.

The results of research conducted by the company has produced a total of 23,000 unauthorized access to the accounts of Club Nintendo, so that it has proceeded to ask their users to change the password in order to reduce the most of any problems arising from misuse of your password by others.

As happens in these cases, as a result of exposure of the accounts, cybercriminals have gained access to names, email addresses, postal addresses as well as phone numbers of users affected, although not have been compromised the numbers for credit cards.

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