Nintendo of America has confirmed suffering a third-party data breach incident, but played down its severity.
An “extortion-as-a-service” hacking group called Shadowbyt3$ recently claimed to have breached Nintendo of America, a subsidiary of the Japanese gaming giant, operating in the United States, Canada, and some Latin America countries, and exfiltrated sensitive data on its employees.
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Source: TechRadar News
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