Security News > 2020 > April > How to protect your Nintendo account after the recent data breach

A breach has impacted the accounts of some 160,000 Nintendo users.

Nintendo users are being forced to change passwords following a data breach that has affected 160,000 people.

On its Japanese website on Friday, Nintendo announced that hackers were able to use login IDs and passwords obtained illegally to impersonate accounts via the Nintendo Network ID. The company confirmed that 160,000 accounts have been affected and that certain information may have been viewed by a third party.

Nintendo also said that the registered credit cards or PayPal accounts for users who linked their NNIDs with their Nintendo accounts may have been used illegally at the My Nintendo Store or Nintendo eShop.

"Nintendo's recently-released 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' game for the Nintendo Switch came out in March, just when people were required to stay home, and so has done very, very well. This means that any attention on Nintendo is magnified-both because the company is in the media much more, and also because it has a glut of new users right now. It's always important to react carefully to a security breach, but even more so in a case like this, with both users and publicity at highs."

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