Video game company Nintendo has confirmed 160,000 accounts were recently hacked and had personal information exposed. According to the company, someone used a flaw associated with Nintendo Network ID logins to gain access to the affected accounts. Nintendo says it is ending the ability to log in that way and it will be notifying possibly affected accounts to change their passwords.

No financial data was exposed in the hack, but Nintendo says a user’s nickname, date of birth, country, region, and email address were potentially exposed. That information can be used by hackers to track down other accounts associated with those email addresses.

The company did warn users who have the same password for their Nintendo account that their balances and registered credit card or PayPal accounts may be illegally used at the My Nintendo Store or Nintendo eShop. The credit card information itself was not exposed.

The hacks first began near the beginning of April.

Nintendo is encouraging users to set up a two-step verification to further protect themselves.

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