Nintendo has certain parts of its European site, which closed as a precaution. Troublemakers means of phishing data from Nintendo-customers trying to figure out. Priv lwa data are not in danger, says Nintendo.
It is unclear why Nintendo parts of the site to close, because typically, phishing is on a different domain, that actually really makes you think of the site of a trustworthy company. Under more Club Nintendo is by the phishing attack is currently not accessible.
Nintendo brought the news about the attack itself to the outside via a communication that appears on the home page. The details of the attack are not yet clear. The consolemaker says in the notice that on the European site, no private information will be kept, so that also can’t be stolen.
Hackers have over the past months aiming for the games industry. This spring was the first time Sony’s PSN hacked, with account details of 77 million gamers was captured. Then there were many sites of Sony cracked. Also gamessite Codemasters has been hacked. According to the administrators are only encrypted passwords are captured. Because that is decrypted can be via a brute force attack, all users must their change passwords.
