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Hackers access data of 23,000 user accounts club ... - Reuters

MADRID, 5 Jul. (Portaltic / EP) –

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Club Nintendo platform has been ‘hacked’ in Japan. The attack occurred from June 9 until Thursday July 4. The company detected a significant increase in the number of errors of web access by users, which led him to investigate the situation, and discover the attack.

According to the results of research conducted by Nintendo, collected in a company statement, there were about 23,000 unauthorized access to accounts of Club Nintendo, so the Japanese asked all members of Club Nintendo in Japan that change your password , to avoid any problems.

The consequences of this invasion assume that the names, e-mails, addresses and telephone numbers of thousands of users have been seen engaged . However, the credit card numbers of users have been compromised.

At the moment, there is no evidence that the attack has affected other countries, but in any case it is desirable that users who are members of Club Nintendo in any country change their passwords as a precaution .

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– Nintendo News (Japanese)

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