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Nintendo Hit by Third-Party Data Breach
18 Jun
Summary
- Nintendo confirms a third-party service experienced a data breach.
- Employee survey data, not customer data, was affected.
- The company's own systems were not compromised.
Nintendo of North America is addressing a data security incident involving a third-party service provider. The company has confirmed that its own internal systems remain secure and have not been compromised.
The breach affected TinyPulse, a service that collects employee feedback and conducts internal satisfaction surveys for Nintendo. This third-party vendor experienced an issue that led to the alleged theft of internal corporate data.
According to reports, the compromised data includes results from employee satisfaction surveys and names of Nintendo employees. The hacking group reportedly demanded a $2 million ransom. Nintendo has emphasized that the affected data is limited to internal survey content from a small subset of its workforce, and much of it is several years old.
The company is collaborating with the service provider to resolve the situation. This incident highlights the growing threat of ransomware-as-a-service tools impacting companies globally.
