The games industry has been bombarded with cyber attacks since the PlayStation Network outage in May, with Nintendo being the latest victim.
The platform-holder's main European website is warning all that view it of a possible Phishing threat to users. Logging onto the site prompts the following statement:
"Phishing is when someone attempts to find out your personal information, such as usernames and passwords, by pretending to be a trustworthy person or company in an electronic communication such as an email or via a website.
"We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused. Please do get in touch with your local Nintendo Customer Services if you have any further concerns."
Nintendo admitted just days before E3 this month that hackers had cracked into one of its US servers, but no user information was stolen.
Nintendo isn't the only one in the crosshairs of dirty hackers this weekend; Epic has confirmed that both its forums and websites have been breached.
The news comes after UK games firm Codemasters' database was hacked for the second time last week. Both Sony and Square Enix have both also suffered at the hands of hackers this year.
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timewarp1 on 12 Jun '11 said:
looks like Lulzsec much as they like Nintendo have a few members who are getting a free tow on the back of their ship and using the information they get for their own purposes. I wouldnt be surprised if NHS is attacked in a bigger way in the next few months.
Gaseous Snake on 12 Jun '11 said:
Is murder permitted if everyone wants it? Because if it is, these crackers better watch out. In fact, they'd better watch out anyway; I for one know that if I came face-to-face with someone I knew was one of those crackers, I'd punch them in the face. Hard.
TOKEN on 12 Jun '11 said:
You know what this means,yourll have to buy console anti virus.
El Mag on 12 Jun '11 said:
I imagine you saying that in a Mr T type voice, makes me laugh. You'll pity them fools!!
Stryker89 on 12 Jun '11 said:
Not Nintendo...
Gaseous Snake on 12 Jun '11 said:
Really? Because I imagine my voice like Steven Seagal's. Even though I've heard my voice plenty of times and it sounds nothing like that.
El Mag on 12 Jun '11 said:
I think Steven Seagal is too mellow to call anybody a cracker nowadays, it just wouldn't have fit right if i imagined that. The kill threat works with it because even though he's old he's still a killing machine, so that's easy enough to picture.
I liked the whole message, but if i could have changed just one thing then i'd have added theme music to it. Just think how scared the hacking scum would be then.
Gaseous Snake on 12 Jun '11 said:
Everything's better with theme music; mine's The Entertainer by Scott Joplin. I'm always whistling or humming it, it p**ses everyone off, but I don't care. Because I have theme music.
markyR on 12 Jun '11 said:
Script kiddies for the win!!
If these hackers aren't brought to justice and made an example of then it doesn't bold well for the future on the net
and they are more then capable of tracing these hackers if they use their brains.
orgasmatron on 12 Jun '11 said:
Those who says that the future in video gaming is that you downliad all games online and don't need a console just lost their case. if they start to have video games on internet I will never play those games. the stream games will soon be hacked too. When the video games companies started to have online shops and gaming I knew it will be the end of video games if they're not going to stop that s**t.