Nintendo confirms 160,000 accounts accessed in huge privacy breach

Nintendo has confirmed that 160,000 Nintendo Accounts have been accessed in an enormous privacy breach.

If you were affected, your private data such as your nickname, email, date of birth, gender and country/region were potentially viewable by a third party.

Credit card data was not accessed, though as Eurogamer reported earlier this week, linked payment methods were used in some cases to make unauthorised purchases.

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