Nintendo Confirms 160,000 Accounts Were Accessed in Hacking Attempts

Following several reports earlier this week, Nintendo has officially confirmed over 160,000 accounts have been accessed in a huge hacking breach. As such, the company has announced it will disable the ability to long into Nintendo Accounts through Nintendo Network ID (NNID).According to Nintendo, login IDs and passwords "obtained illegally by some means other than our service," have been used since the beginning of the month in order to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Data on nickname...