Nintendo now reserves the right to brick your console if you violate their user agreement. If you have a Nintendo account, you will be receiving an email soon (or you’ve gotten one already) asking you ...

UPDATE (10/16 at 9:13 a.m.): In a statement to Sankei Shimbun about the hack, Nintendo claimed that “No leakage of personal information has been confirmed, and no breach of development or business ...

TL;DR: Reports indicate hacking group Crimson Collective breached Nintendo, stealing extensive data including manuals, development files, and backups. Cybersecurity firm Hackmanac verified the attack, ...

It’s not exactly novel to be reporting on “big corporation gets hacked” stories, after all, it seems like most companies find it impossible to keep their (and indeed yours and my) data secure, but if ...

Last week, a group of hackers calling itself the Crimson Collective made claims that it has infiltrated Nintendo’s systems and secured a wealth of private data. This week, Nintendo has responded to ...

Switch and Switch 2 users who try to hack their consoles or play pirated copies of games may find their devices rendered completely inoperable by Nintendo. That new warning was buried in a recent ...

Nintendo has announced hackers did not take any development or business information when they accessed its systems last week. Last weekend, hackers claimed they had "breached" Nintendo servers and ...

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