Nintendo recently announced publicly that it was targeted in yet another cyber attack. Since the start of this year there has been a rapid increase in cyber attacks of mostly data theft, but other kinds too. Though according to Nintendo, this time the targeted data was not compromised, in fact it was stated that no personal or company information was lost at all. Nintendo, famous for its gaming console Wii, made all these official announcements on Sunday.
Image via CrunchBase The server on which the data of Nintendo Co. is stored, located within U.S., was illegally accessed a few weeks back, though the data was not compromised at all, confirmed company spokesperson Ken Toyoda said. Toyoda declared that "There were no third-party victims" either, while he refused to further explain the attack in detail. "But it is a fact there was some kind of possible hacking attack," he added. This damage could be form a series after the on-going large cyber attacks in recent days, especially in the case of Nintendo’s own market rival; Sony Corp.
Sony Corporation faced one of the most fierce cyber attacks, which stole such large chunk of data that it is being considered one of the largest data thefts since the advent of internet. The enormous amount of data included personal information, email addresses, names and birth dates. Such personal data of almost 100 million users, if not more, was stolen in the data theft resulting in the immediate suspension of the service. Service was kept out since April due to security reasons, recovery processing and installing better security measures for future. The network service was just recently returned after more than a month of outage. Meanwhile, Sony still faced several hack attacks to their local websites in many countries, including one attack at their Sony Pictures' website last week. It still remains extremely ambiguous, even after long-investigations of agencies like FBI, whether who or which organization is responsible for these hack attacks at Sony or Nintendo.
One of the online hackers groups, who have named itself ‘Lulz Security’ relating to the online Internet acronym for "laugh out loud," has allegedly claimed responsibility of the attacks though it is not been yet confirmed. They claim to be the ones behind the recent data theft of personal information of one million users' of Sony Corp.
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