Nintendo Admits It Was Hacked, but Says Users Are Safe

[SyphonX]

Yea, right.. "hacked"... all the major corporations are getting "hacked", and then letting the whole world know.

No agenda there, nope, clearly no corporate agenda there sir.

 

[beema]

Go aw ay lulzsec, nobody likes you and you aren't funny.
At least Anon had the history of standing up for just causes (even if they were mostly bullshit).
You guys are just douchebags.

 

[MB202]

It's funny, I was talking about the people who hacked Sony in my summer class today, and someone brought up Nintendo had been hacked. That shocked me beyond belief and went to ask him about it personally. Apparently, it happened early this morning so it was recent news. I'm glad to know the damage was minimal.

 

[fundayz]

Go aw ay lulzsec, nobody likes you and you aren't funny.
At least Anon had the history of standing up for just causes (even if they were mostly bullshit).
You guys are just douchebags.

You're giving them the lulz

 

[beema]

You're giving them the lulz

I wish I could give them terminal cancer

 

[fundayz]

I wish I could give them terminal cancer

exaggerated response is exaggerated

 

[ArchAngelKira]

PS3 owners:OMG PS3 GOT HACKED

wii owners:...hmm? oh...

 

[Dane Tesston]

Actually, I feel inclined to agree. Is the world really better off with these assholes just running around?

 

[Davroth]

And here I was worrying that my friendcodes might be compromised.

 

[mechanixis]

That's because if you have brains , you know they are talking about the company image, nintendo is the most friendlies companies ever, there was no point of proving anything.

Do you guys actually realize from what this SONY thing started, ... it's super simple. Sony totally disabled and prevented any further use of LINUX on the PS3 like a year or more ago, making those people angry ... that's why the FAILOVERFLOW started to get serious, that's why geohot ... that's why rage at sony , because sony did this to their self, PS3 came out with ADVERTISMENTS that it can run LINUX and was marketed OFFICIALLY.

They took LINUX away, they attacked the linux hackers who were only trying to get linux up working , NOT PIRACY, .... and they paid for it. FailOvefl0w has always stated it does not do that for piracy, and they cracked it but they wouldn't released --- idk what happened between why FO even released something ... but geohot made a jailbreak and released it based on the exploit that failoverflow made.

If they got linux to play with (they werent using linux to try to pirate it, nobody just did it because everyone was busy with other projects such as Wii ... which is what is a MORAL OF THIS WHOLE THING . HACKERS WILL ALWAYS ATTACK WHAT IS THE MOST LOCKED OUT SYSTEM - they shifted toward PS3 IMMEDIATELY as Linux was disabled in a frimware update.

That's why, if you're nice and support the customers, have a lot less chance of getting outright hacked unless you PROVOKE the attack, and sony is incompetent, their security SUCKS, they just weren't attacked before, it's really not that they had better security not by a long shot, not in a million years.

When they got linux, all were happy, nobody seriously tried or hyped hacking it for piracy, only minor stuff such as basement idiots who operate file sharing sites ... but those were 16old script kiddies they never broken anything serious to crack the PS3 ... and Sony was afraid of those kids using linux typing commands and "magically" crack it, that's how the company is totally wrong at what their perception is, only serious guys who are at college actually know stuff and those guys aren't idiots they would just hack it for lulz.

The only people I've seen use caps like that are the ones who are trying to convince you to ACCEPT JESUS CHIRST THE LORD AS YOUR SAVIOR or else you will BURN IN HELL.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

PS3 owners:OMG PS3 GOT HACKED

wii owners:...hmm? oh...

Everyone will log on to find thier mii is really fat and has an unnattractive beard,

oeh noes.

 

[Jumwa]

Sounds more like a group of amateur hackers weren't able to accomplish anything, so they felt making up excuses for it would save some face.

These groups work by targeting vulnerable sites that they can get into and stir up trouble in easily. It's unlikely they're capable of doing anything more than that.

You do realise that the people who hacked nintendo are the same people who hacked took control and defaced the main site of a division of the FBI called infraguard (or something like that) which specialise in cyber security. They then posted all personal details of the head guy who works there after he offered them a job to take down competitors (a so called whitehat incident turning black).

Hardly amateurs

Welp, I see all the people who supported "bringing down Sony" have shut up quite nicely after seeing this attack.

Guess stealing personal information isn't so "cool", now is it?

They just posted the personal info on some top guys within an internet security firm that works for the FBI. Its just that they don't feel the need to do it for Nintendo since they like them.

You do remember that they "hacked" into that security firm by calling the IT guy and convincing him they were the firms president and thereby got the password to access their files that way, right? These aren't hacker geniuses.

 

[lacktheknack]

*Eyes his Xbox*

Any day now...

Please?

As the most evil company in the business MS deserves it.

There's so much wrong with this post.

1: You want MS to be hacked.

2: You think they're the most evil in the business.

3: You want them hacked because "they deserve it".

You make me ashamed to be human.

 

[Awexsome]

Reminds me of the westerns on TV where there was a roving band of outlaws that could show up and shoot up any pub they wanted because no one could stop them. Then the hero or the government of the story got involved and shut the bastards down giving the story a nice happy ending...

 

[Colinmac93]

Just by reading the title, I knew that this would trigger some kind of fanboy debate.
Anyway, LulzSec have made their point. They can hack. Now can they please just go away and leave us all in peace? Hacking these big companies isn't really gonna benefit anyone.

 

[gabe12301]

Oh god microsoft is next. I've got some credit card information to secure.

 

[poiuppx]

Reminds me of the westerns on TV where there was a roving band of outlaws that could show up and shoot up any pub they wanted because no one could stop them. Then the hero or the government of the story got involved and shut the bastards down giving the story a nice happy ending...

So this story is going to end with the Lulzsec guys gut-shot in a dusty street while people cheer on their painful demise? I'm... very okay with this.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Hope I'm really safe. I recently downloaded Mario Kart 64 and Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and if I lose them to this hack then I wont be able to play them....and that's just more wrong than wrong itself.

 

[hawkeye52]

Sounds more like a group of amateur hackers weren't able to accomplish anything, so they felt making up excuses for it would save some face.

These groups work by targeting vulnerable sites that they can get into and stir up trouble in easily. It's unlikely they're capable of doing anything more than that.

You do realise that the people who hacked nintendo are the same people who hacked took control and defaced the main site of a division of the FBI called infraguard (or something like that) which specialise in cyber security. They then posted all personal details of the head guy who works there after he offered them a job to take down competitors (a so called whitehat incident turning black).

Hardly amateurs

Welp, I see all the people who supported "bringing down Sony" have shut up quite nicely after seeing this attack.

Guess stealing personal information isn't so "cool", now is it?

They just posted the personal info on some top guys within an internet security firm that works for the FBI. Its just that they don't feel the need to do it for Nintendo since they like them.

You do remember that they "hacked" into that security firm by calling the IT guy and convincing him they were the firms president and thereby got the password to access their files that way, right? These aren't hacker geniuses.

Thats the attack that anonymous did a while back against HBGary internet security. Lulsec did the nintendo one as a warm up to the FBI affiliate attack against infraguard.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/06/lulzsec_fbi_affiliates_hack/

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/07/hbgary-federal-hacked-and-exposed-by-anonymous/

 

[punipunipyo]

STOP HACKING GAMES/EDUCATION sites! hack FOX, and MSNBC!!! take THEM down! do the WORLD a favor! heck, i bet instead doing the right thing, they'd be going after X-box after this... it's stupid, hackers are just gonna provoke the gaming industries to up their measures, and making us consumers and consumers suffer... more securities, more "lock ups" and more ID checks, slow update/log on speed... etc.