The Pokémon Company said it detected a hacking attack on some users and reset their account passwords.
Last week, an alert appeared on the official Pokémon support site stating that “Pokémon has proactively locked the accounts of potentially affected fans following an attempt to compromise our account systems.”
The Pokemon Company posted an alert about the hacking attempt on its official support website.
As of Tuesday, the alert had disappeared. A company spokesman said there was no breach, just a series of hacking attempts targeting some users.
“There was no compromise to the account system. What we experienced and discovered were attempts to log into certain accounts. To protect our customers, we have reset some passwords that prompted this message,” said Pokémon Company spokesman Daniel Benkvitt. Daniel Benkwitt said.
Pokémon is a popular game series with hundreds of millions of players around the world.
Benkwitt said that only 0.1% of accounts targeted by hackers were actually compromised, and reiterated that the company has forced affected users to reset their passwords, so for those who haven’t been forced to reset their passwords, there’s nothing that can be done . password.
The description of the Pokémon account breach sounds like credential stuffing, where malicious hackers use usernames and passwords stolen from other breaches and reuse them on other websites.
A recent example of a similar incident was what happened to the genetic testing company 23andMe last year. In that incident, hackers used passwords revealed in other breaches to break into the accounts of approximately 14,000 accounts. By breaking into these accounts, hackers were able to access the sensitive genetic data of millions of other 23andMe account holders.
This prompted the company (along with several other competitors) to introduce mandatory two-factor authentication, a security feature that prevents credential stuffing attacks.
As verified by TechCrunch, The Pokemon Company does not allow users to enable dual functionality on their accounts.
