Suspicious login attempts begin to plague Switch owners, Nintendo to investigate

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There's something concerning going on, as Nintendo Switch owners are reporting that they're seeing suspicious attempted log-ins for their account. Many users are sharing that they've either received emails from Nintendo with notices of log-ins from new devices, or even some that say their saved payment information was used to purchase V-bucks in Fortnite without their authorization. While Nintendo hasn't confirmed or denied as to whether or not there was a data breach or if there's a problem unfolding, it would be wise to make sure your account is secured. You can do so by resetting your password, checking out if there's been an unauthorized log-in attempt by looking at your history, removing your linked PayPal or Credit Card accounts, or turning 2-Step Verification on for your Switch account, which Nintendo themselves recommended just last week.

Nintendo is now aware of the problem and is "investigating the situation". They again recommend that users turn on 2FA.

EDIT: One of our users is conducting a poll to see who has been affected. You can fill it out here.
 

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It happened to me. Got an email with a new login attempt from Russia. Luckily no purchases made. Password changed and 2 step on. Recommend you guys do the same
 

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I can't say I have investigated Sony and MS' bug bounties but I would struggle to believe they don't have any.

As for Nintendo why makes you so certain of their practices? Some of the absolute howlers we have seen come from Nintendo over the years, and continued awfulness of their servers in general, does rather lead me to being uncharitable by default. Similarly why I am not terribly inclined to believe people when they tell me, indeed cross their heart and hope to die no less, a password is long and not reused anywhere it seems to be widespread enough without common factors right now to make me look at another compromised site feeding a grab.

Likewise 20K for a potentially millions large vaguely current login and whatnot? That is nothing for just the batch, and if they can cycle them themselves then even more so.
 

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I received support email back after 15 days. They sent me a link about how to restore my account. My email already told them that I changed my password. Useless people giving useless support and late.
 

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They should come out with an email saying sorry for all the inconvenience we are now today and tomorrow offering all our first party games half price
 
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