Oh, the humanity! The humanity! From Foxnews: Nintendo was targeted in a recent online data attack, but no personal or company information was lost, the Japanese maker of the Wii game console said Sunday. The server of an affiliate of Nintendo Co.'s U.S. unit was accessed unlawfully a few weeks ago, but there was no damage, company spokesman Ken Toyoda said. "There were no third-party victims," Toyoda said, while declining to elaborate. "But it is a fact there was some kind of possible hacking attack." The damage from what could be a recent spate of such data breaches targeting big-name brands was more serious at rival Sony Corp. Sony has said massive personal information, including email addresses, names and birth dates, and involving more than 100 million users, is suspected of having been stolen after security was compromised in April for its network service for the PlayStation 3 game machine, for other online services and, in the past week, from Sony Pictures' website. It is still unclear who is behind the attacks at Sony or Nintendo, based in Kyoto. Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security -- a reference to the Internetspeak for "laugh out loud"-- have recently boasted of compromising more than 1 million users' personal information. Tokyo-based Sony has said it is strengthening security measures. It has contacted the FBI and other authorities for an investigation into the cyber attacks. :flamethrower::mario:
HCK: what about using a more credible source ? cause FOX(also known as FUCKS/FAUX) news, are not really credible.
Fox is generally accurate when it comes to non-political stories like this. If this had anything to do with American politics I would never trust them.
Nintendo isn't known to hold credit card data are they? I suppose any transaction with them (or any company) still could lead to theft of some vital data.
I really long for the days when consoles didn't have the ability to access the internet, and there was no worry of my personal information being stolen.
Yeah, but you can buy Wii points with a Card over the console as well. Or at least I remember doing that back when it was first released.
I'm pretty sure you have to enter the credit card data everytime you want to buy additional points, though, so this data is probably not being saved permanently.
