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Nintendo revealed Tuesday that more than 300,000 users of the Nintendo Switch were jacked, which is almost double the amount originally reported.
What’s going on:
- Nintendo said Monday that close to 300,000 Switch users were hacked. This came after a report in April that close to 160,000 users were hacked, according to Business Insider.
- Hackers users include those who connected the Nintendo 3DS or Wii U “Nintendo Network ID” to the Nintendo Switch. The company uses a new system called Nintendo Account. People could connect their old ID to the new system, though, if they wanted to.
- Nintendo suggests everyone who could be impacted to change their passwords and keep an eye on their email inbox, per Business Insider.
- The company said: “As a further precaution, we will soon contact users about resetting passwords for Nintendo Network IDs and Nintendo Accounts that we have reason to believe were accessed without authorization.”
What happened in April?
- Nintendo kicked off an investigation into the matter back in April. Multiple reports suggested hackers gained access to “PayPal funds linked to the Nintendo eShop and using them to purchase game currencies like Fortnite’s “V-bucks” and, in some cases, hundreds of dollars worth of games,” the Deseret News reported.
- The company said (via ComicBook.com): “While we continue to investigate, we would like to reassure users that there is currently no evidence pointing toward a breach of Nintendo’s databases, servers or services. As one action in our ongoing investigation, we are discontinuing the ability to use a Nintendo Network ID to sign in to a Nintendo Account. All other options to sign in to a Nintendo Account remain available.”