Nintendo confirms 140,000 additional accounts were hacked

Nintendo Co. said about 140,000 more user accounts than previously thought were accessed without authorization in a recent data breach, bringing the total number hacked to about 300,000.The Japanese video game maker revealed in April that about 160,000 Nintendo Network ID accounts had been hacked.Nintendo announced in a press release on Tuesday that it discovered the data breach was more serious than it had earlier admitted.Nintendo locked the hacked accounts, requesting customers who have been potentially affected to reset their passwords via a prompt sent by the company.The accounts, used…READ FULL ARTICLE