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Nintendo Data Breach Hits Employees, Not Gamers: Hackers Threaten To Release Sensitive Files

Summary by IBTimes UK
Nintendo, the gaming giant behind Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokemon, revealed that a subset of employee data had been exposed through a vulnerability in a third-party platform it uses for internal surveys. The company's own infrastructure, however, was not breached. The data, according to Nintendo, came from TinyPulse, an employee engagement and survey software platform that Nintendo had contracted to collect internal workplace feedb…

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Nintendo is the latest victim of ransomware groups targeting major players in the industry. A ransom of $2 million has been demanded.

Hackers claim to have stolen internal company data from Nintendo from ten years. They demand a ransom of two million dollars. A digital attacker demands a ransom of two million dollars from the Japanese video game company Nintendo. The player claims in a well-known cybercrime forum to have stolen internal company data from a period of ten years. In order to prevent publication of the data, the group set a ransom period. The data set should have …

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Nintendo Wire broke the news on Monday, June 15, 2026.
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