Lulzsec Hacks Nintendo: No User Information Released
The bad news: A group of hackers have infiltrated a U.S. Nintendo server. The worse news: It's the same group of hackers that have been on a digital rampage as of late, defacing sites from PBS, Sony, and 2600 in short order. The good news? Nintendo's breach seems to be completely controlled and even the hackers themselves are admitting that they didn't manage to pilfer anything good.
Nintendo representatives announced today that the company was recently the target of an online attack. While worrisome that this attacked allegedly occurred a few weeks ago, and Nintendo's only now coming forward with the information, the silver lining to the entire ordeal is that the hackers didn't manage to escape with any useful information.
"The server contained no consumer information. The protection of our customer information is our utmost priority," said Nintendo of America, the U.S. branch of Nintendo, in an e-mailed statement to Reuters. "We constantly monitor our security." The hacker group Lulzsec took claim for the Nintendo attack–just one more site or company to add to the group's growing list of successful break-ins. Although Lulzsec did post the results of its Nintendo break-in to Pastebin, the group admitted that its plunder was as minimal as it was unusable.
