| TomaTito said: Reddit was updated saying that the Nintendo Network was not hacked but the accounts got compromised through the Nugget Bridge site instead. If you have never used that site, you are safe. It's not a direct hack on Nintendo Network. Months ago hackers leaked a large user list from Nugget Bridge, a website where competitive Pokémon (VGC) players gather (or gathered, the website has been quite inactive since the hack). Someone decided to test the usernames and passwords on Nintendo Network, I guess these 450 are the ones who worked. If you examine the list will notice a lot of the compromised users end in "VGC". The leaker commented here explaining better what happened. The lesson here is, don't use the same user and the same password for different sites. |
This is basically what I've been saying for a while now.
Green098 said:
Hm... I would say the thread's title need's changed then, though I dont know what to. Prehaps it should be "Nugget Bridge website accounts hacked" instead? |
Well... Technically the Nintendo Network accounts are the (new) victims here. I'd say the title is correct since it doesn't say 'Nintendo Network hacked'.
