Nintendo's report counts accounts compromised dating back to the beginning of April...

>Nintendo's report counts accounts compromised dating back to the beginning of April, but there were reports of issues in March as well. The company says that third parties weren't able to view your credit card information. However, if you had happened to save payment information to your Nintendo Account, when gaining access to it with the password, they would be able to use it to buy things on the account - with vbucks appearing to have been a favorite purchase.
Why do people keep falling for these phishing scams

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There wasn't a phishing scam. Nintendo themselves were hacked.

It's ok I trust Nintendo completely anyways

Before Yas Forumstardation kicks in any further:

>Nintendo says that 160,000 of its customers' accounts have been compromised. The company says that this was done by third parties obtaining passwords and login information outside of its service, then illegally logging in to accounts. As a result of this, the company has disabled the Nintendo Network ID login process, so you won't be able to log in to any services with your NNID.

Translation: Nintendo wasn't hacked nor compromised, people WILLINGLY fell for phishing on the internet, gave third parties their information, and got their shit stolen.
Nintendo is DISABLING Nintendo Network ID as a response to this.
They weren't hacked, nor compromised.
They're basically implementing an anti-retard precaution because people are retarded.

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They claim it wasn't their service, but all my passwords are incredibly long and randomized. Got a notification saying I had a login from vietnam, which was really weird. None of my other accounts have been compromised. Ever.

I changed my password to another super long random string of garbage that'd take years to bruteforce in the best of scenarios, a few days later it got broken into again, this time an IP from Argentina.

So what gives? The password was impossible to guess, I haven't logged into anything Nintendo related recently. There was no opportunity for me to be "phished" and since the data had been changed and was compromised again in 3 days, it's unlikely to be some unrelated leak from another site?

What's the real story here?

>They claim it wasn't their service, but all my passwords are incredibly long and randomized. Got a notification saying I had a login from vietnam, which was really weird. None of my other accounts have been compromised. Ever.

Hm-hm.
Care to post any form of proof?

I had an 8 character long, randomly generated password that I used at first. I didn't fuck with it for months and all the sudden I get a notification saying there was a login from Malaysia. I change my password to a 16 character long randomly generated password and do nothing else. I get two more emails like that, changing the password both times. Don't fucking tell me I was acting retarded when I didn't do anything, you have no idea what you're talking about.

This affects the NNID and not the current Nintendo account. NNID was for using the WiiU and 3DS. Literally 90% of all accounts were switched the new Nintendo Account system when Switch launched.

Has it been patched?

Proof of what? Why do you think I'd lie about my password security? My setup is a local Keepass Database (it's a password manager). My Nintendo password specifically is a 20 character thing including Upper, Lowercase and numbers. What stake do you think I have in this in trying to slander Nintendo or something? I don't even know what the password is, it's not something that can be bruteforced in any reasonable amount of time if it was tried locally either.

It wouldn't make sense for it to even be a leak from another forum since these are all randomly generated, meaning a breach on another site would not give the attacker access to my password for Nintendo. Do you want me to go find the login e-mails or something? Something fishy is going on here.

>NNID was for using the WiiU and 3DS
Interesting. I did have both of those systems though I haven't logged on to both of them in forever and they have been switched off for a while. My only guess is someone had been harvesting these on those consoles for a while and only started releasing them into the wild/using them now. But it still makes no sense because after changing my password, if both systems are switched off and my account is logged nowhere else, how would they get the password again?

I cannot see a scenario where this isn't coming from Nintendo internally

Someone hijacked my PlayStation account last night the same way, and my password was incredibly long and ridiculous.

>So what gives? The password was impossible to guess

My key generator can guess any Non-government encrypted password in about 15 minutes. Stop being dumb and thinking your a computer science major with an unhackable password

9 out of 10 times you deserve it if you get an account compromised. Your own fault for being retarded.

I used the NNID login for the Wii U and 3DS, but that was years ago and neither one had been connected to the internet in years, let alone log in using that NNID. I didn't get my password hacked or account taken, is it just luck of the draw?

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>My key generator can guess any Non-government encrypted password in about 15 minutes.

Your key "generator" can guess encrypted passwords? The fuck does that even mean? What does it even matter if they are "government encrypted"?

Can you hack into the mainframes and disable the algorithms too?

Regardless of the actual cause, you're only hurting yourself by not setting up 2FA for your account. Also don't use Google Authenticator.

Sure, but this is the 10th time. Something very specific happened that seems to have hit people at random regardless of their security. Or maybe they are all tied by some weird event like having hacked 3DS's a few years ago.

Post proof só €€onyggers.

who?

>2020
>not using paypal

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He was asking you to post your password. It was a blunt joke, you fucking retard

Are you sure? Because there's people like here that make me think this is some stupid console war thing. Funny part is I could actually post my password here with like two letters swapped out and it'd still be impossible to "'guess".

Okay

>2020
>Using Paypal

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I don't think your passwords are actually intricate or good at all and you're just being a shithead. If they were there's no way you would have been hit by this.

What an astoundingly retarded post, you are a script kiddie.

I'll show you my password if you show me yours

>Curry nigger phishing is on the rise

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You first.

Here you go:

admin123

Your move.

My password is candlejack. Kind of a weird one I know, and super simple, but it has been extremely reliable over the yea

I didnt get hacked so who cares

123drowssap321

nice damage control

I like to make whole sentences for passwords.
IfIwasinthearmyiwouldbedyingforisraeljustlikemillionsofamericanshave

Why can't you faggots ever accept Nintendo is in the wrong?
I had someone log in via my NNID, download fortnite, link my account to epic games and start buying vbucks.
I was retarded for not using 2FA but its Nintendo's shitty security that lead to this.

Here's a picture from last thread before Nintendo confirmed this that conviniently was looked over.
>First time playing fortnite was 7 days ago when my account was hacked
>some pajeet linking my NNID to epic
>Then using it to buy vbucks

>inb4 that could have been you
No one fucking cares about fortnite and I wouldn't spend $60 to make a false point
>inb4 phishing shit
I don't log into my Nintendo account anywhere but the one time I linked it to my Switch. It's impossible that I would have fallen for anything phishing related when I don't use it anywhere.

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I only have the option to use Google Authenticator. I have no unknown logins so I'd almost rather take the risk rather than rely on Google for this.

>my NNID, download fortnite, link my account to epic games and start buying vbucks.

Seems like a lot of people are going the vbucks route. I wonder how they actually "cash that out" to real money though. I must have gotten lucky because they seem to have signed in and done literally nothing else.

user, did you ever own and login on a Wii U or 3DS? Also, did you ever hack any of the consoles with custom firmware?