Nintendo Switch Online hack: Company confirms huge breach of players' details

Nintendo has confirmed a huge hack that allowed access to 160,000 people's accounts on its online services. Rumours of a hack had spread in recent days as players reported suspicious logins and unauthorised purchases being made from their accounts. Now the company has confirmed those accounts were hacked, in a post on its Japanese website. It said that hackers had been able to access online logins that had been made available elsewhere on the internet. It gave no details of how the details were stolen or how widely they had been used.