24,000 Nintendo Site Accounts Compromised

hypnosec writes "Nintendo has revealed that it has detected illicit logins in nearly 24,000 accounts on one of the main fan sites in Japan 'Club Nintendo' and account details such as real names, addresses, emails and phone numbers may have been accessed. According to Nintendo the mass login attempts have been made using a list of login credentials containing usernames and password obtained from some service other than Nintendo. The company revealed that it detected over 15 million login attempts out of which 23,926 were successful."

Re:Just guessing?

[ciderbrew]

How much brute force traffic do you expect before you do something? Especially after Sony got a kick in the nuts with this. Also, I'd expect children to have awful dictionary passwords with only the cleverer dyslexic kids being safe. Their own name and some numbers being the limit. Shame, they could have set some pictures and set up a really good Nintendo'ish password system. More secure than adult stuff now I come to think how it would work.