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What happened to Nintendo accounts
In early April, some Nintendo users noticed that something was wrong. They realized that there was unauthorized access and worse, purchases that they had not made. So they contacted the company, which began to investigate what was happening.
The first measure the company took was to advise all users to activate the double verification factor. One way to add an extra layer of security. While they continued investigating to clarify what had happened and what was the seriousness of the problem.
Now we have official information, Nintendo has officially announced that more than 150,000 Nintendo user accounts have been hacked. What does this mean exactly? Well, some people have had access to different information from these users. To be exact, when both the NNID and the Nintendo account are compromised, these are the data obtained:
- Information registered in NNID (Nintendo Network ID): nickname, email, date of birth and country of residence.
- Nintendo account information: name, date of birth, country, sex and email address.
The most serious problem of all is that some users shared a password with both identifiers, so fraudulent purchases could be made through the associated Pay Pal cards or accounts.
Equally, according to. Nintendo, although the attackers were able to impersonate the NNID, an identifier associated with the consoles, obtaining these keys seems to have been obtained through means other than Nintendo’s services.
With all this information on the table, Nintendo itself has already taken action on the matter and the first measure was to erase the current passwords of all users whose accounts have been exposed, thus forcing them to introduce a new one. The second, publicly warn them by means of the press release and the sending of emails to those affected.
Who is affected
In principle any user could have been affected. It is not something that only affects a certain region or country. Therefore, your account could be one of them. If you haven’t been in for a long time, then you either go in and check for any weird moves or check your associated email.
If you have received a Nintendo email where they indicate that there has been an access and they give data such as the country, time and operating system as well as the browser from which the connection is established.
What to do to protect your Nintendo account
If your account has been one of the affected, you probably already know it through the email that Nintendo has sent. If not, you may have seen that when logging in you had to reset the password. But if it were not, it would still be recommended that you change your current password.
Also, if you use the same password for NNID and Nintendo accountIt is also recommended that you use different passwords. And if you have trouble remembering them or penalties that you could forget, use a password manager. Which, incidentally, can help you generate a password sure where by length and mix of characters it would be more difficult to find out by brute force attacks.
As Nintendo recommended, you should also enable two-step verification. A simple process that we have explained to you. In addition to also telling you how you can log out of any device where you have started, whether you have it or not with you at the moment.
Finally, if you have seen any unauthorized purchase It is important that you investigate and if so, reject the purchase and Nintendo will contact you to help you resolve any related incidents.
So now you know, this is everything that happened with the Nintendo account hack and what you should do to prevent future problems.
