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23,926 Nintendo Site Accounts Reportedly Compromised
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Nintendo announced on Monday that it found that nearly 24,000 user accounts on the company's main fan site, "Club Nintendo," may have been compromised. The company reported that there is a chance that these users' real names, addresses, emails and phone numbers could have been accessed. The site boasts nearly 4 million users in Japan, and after 15 million reportedly illicit login attempts, 23,926 were successful.
Nintendo became aware of the illicit login attempts after detecting a large number of errors on its site. After further investigation, scattered attempts started around June 2, but it became more of a problem by June 9. Last Friday, the company announced that they would suspend all of the accounts which were compromised and asked users to reset their passwords.
Source: paritynews via Slashdot
