Hacking Attempts Are Happening On Club Nintendo in Japan

Doesn't affect anyone outside Japan

Posted By | On 06th, Jul. 2013

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According to Nintendo’s Japanese official website, Nintendo Club has gotten hacked. Nintendo has warned their reward members of Club Nintendo to change their passwords and log-in information as soon as possible due to a recent hack that has happened at Club Nintendo Japan.

Polygon has stated that a number of access errors started to pop out of nowhere since July 2nd  and Kotaku has reported that there was 23-thousand unauthorized log-ins between June 9th and July 4th. Thankfully, you don’t need a credit card to join Club Nintendo, so no money was stolen from any of the customers.

Things have been going quite bad for Nintendo for quite a while now, what can happen next?

Let us know what you think of this situation in the comments below.

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