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title: "Nintendo; 160,000 unauthorised log-ins"
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description: "Nintendo confirmed what many suspected, 160,000 Nintendo accounts were accessed by third parties."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-04-27 14:10:20"
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Nintendo; 160,000 unauthorised log-ins | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo; 160,000 unauthorised log-ins](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-160000-unauthorised-log-ins.png "Nintendo; 160,000 unauthorised log-ins")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-160000-unauthorised-log-ins.png)Nintendo confirmed what many suspected, 160,000 Nintendo accounts were accessed by third parties.

Nintendo recently advised consumers to start using two-factor authentication and at the same time reports had started coming in via social media that users accounts had been compromised.

## [](#nintendo-network-id)Nintendo Network ID

Nintendo has said that these accounts were accessed via Nintendo Network IDs. The company has now disabled logging in to a Nintendo Account via Nintendo Network ID and has emailed those affected to ask them to change their password.

Japanese Nintendo says that things such as nickname, date of birth, country / region, email address, and gender could all be affected. However, Nintendo says credit card information remains unaffected.

Did you experience any weird behavior?

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