Nintendo confirms 300,000 accounts breached since April, nearly twice as many as first reported

Nintendo has confirmed that hackers breached 300,000 accounts since April. Hackers had access to personal information including users' birthdays and email addresses, but did not have access to credit card information. Nintendo reported unauthorised logins on 24 April, where it was thought that approximately 160,000 accounts had been accessed by malicious actors, the company wrote in a Japanese language blog post. The company now understands that the breach was nearly twice as large, with passwords "obtained illegally by some means other than our service". It is resetting user passwords for affected account as well as disabling the option to log into a Nintendo account through a Nintendo Network ID (NNID).