Nintendo has confirmed that its US website has been hacked. A group called Lulz Security, or LulzSec, gained access to one of the site's servers, copying and then publishing a configuration file.
Last week LulzSec also
hacked Sony Pictures' website, again publishing user information online.
Thankfully, Nintendo's server contained no customer information - a fact confirmed by both the hackers and the hacked.
In an email sent to
Reuters, Nintendo stated:
'
The server contained no consumer information,' Nintendo said in a statement to
Reuters. '
The protection of our customer information is our utmost priority...We constantly monitor our security.'
'Re: Nintendo, we just got a config file and made it clear that we didn't mean any harm,' said a
LulzSec Twitter post regarding the matter. '
Nintendo had already fixed it anyway. <3 them'
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