Nintendo WiFi.com Taken Down Following a Hacker Attack

At around 8 AM (EST), Nintendo WiFi.com was attacked by hackers. The leaderboards / high scores went down. As you can see in the image above (left), it looks like the usernames have either been taken down or have been lost on the Metroid Prime Hunters gaming hub.

Why was it hacked? According to online buzz and gossip, the hackers’ main intention was to make Nintendo improve their security. Wow. If that’s true, that’s a strong and very effective way to get their point across.

We went over and looked at the site again. Things seem to be working fine, for now (pictured above, right). Scores are back up.

Of course, we felt like snooping around. We looked at their Tech Support pages. Sometimes, when a site goes down, there’s something on the Tech Support pages that explains the when and why and how of the site downtime. Nothing there, though. Anybody know for sure anything else about what happened?

Buy: [Metroid Prime Hunters]

At around 8 AM (EST), Nintendo WiFi.com was attacked by hackers. The leaderboards / high scores went down. As you can see in the image above (left), it looks like the usernames have either been taken down or have been lost on the Metroid Prime Hunters gaming hub.

Why was it hacked? According to online buzz and gossip, the hackers’ main intention was to make Nintendo improve their security. Wow. If that’s true, that’s a strong and very effective way to get their point across.

We went over and looked at the site again. Things seem to be working fine, for now (pictured above, right). Scores are back up.

Of course, we felt like snooping around. We looked at their Tech Support pages. Sometimes, when a site goes down, there’s something on the Tech Support pages that explains the when and why and how of the site downtime. Nothing there, though. Anybody know for sure anything else about what happened?

Buy: [Metroid Prime Hunters]