Nintendo Hacked

Seems like there's nowhere safe in the internet! Nintendo Co. said Sunday that a server for its U.S. unit's website had been hacked into but that no company or customer information was compromised, marking the first time the Japanese gaming giant has been targeted in widespread global hacking attacks.

The incident at Nintendo is extremely minor compared with the hacker attacks on rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Network and other online services since April that have led to a personal data breach involving more than 100 million user accounts. The Nintendo breach involved no sensitive information and hasn't caused any damage to its operations or inconveniences for its customers, the company said.

A hacker group called Lulzsec, which had earlier claimed that it had broken into some of Sony's websites and stolen customer data, posted on the Internet some data it claims is a "server configuration file," or data for programming purposes, from a Nintendo server.

Well, indeed, at least the hacking doesn't lead to something similar like the Sony hacking case which released a lot of customer information, and caused the PSN Outage. Then again, Nintendo doesn't have an online service for their consoles anyway~

But, there's no way online services can be fully protected from potential hacking attempts. No matter how secure the system is, there will always be one or two crackers that found the way to attack it.

Source :
WSJ