Hackers Attack Nintendo, But Company Claims Data Safe

Dr Herbert West writes with this from the Wall Street Journal: "Nintendo said Sunday that a server for its US unit's website had been hacked into but that no company or customer information was compromised. The hacker group Lulzsec, which allegedly was behind other breaches of Sony websites earlier this week, claimed responsibility. Lulzsec posted a server configuration file as proof of its involvement yet said it wasn't targeting Nintendo. 'We just got a config file and made it clear that we didn't mean any harm,' the group said this morning via its Twitter.' Nintendo had already fixed it anyway. The attack comes as Nintendo this week launches its new online service for its 3DS hand-held game machine."

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The hackers made it off with

[Anonymous Coward]

Over 1,000,000 gold coins and several thousand mushrooms.

Re:The hackers made it off with

[JockTroll]

However, the data was in another castle.

The Nintendo castle is contantly being broken into

[rishistar]

..by Bowser but Mario always gets the data back.

Their princess was in another castle.

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

> I can't think of anything Nintendo has ever done to justify this.

LulzSec was mad because their princess was in another castle.