Nintendo responds after alleged third-party data breach: Our ‘systems have not been compromised’

In Data Breach News, News, Vendor News
June 18, 2026

Mashable reports:

Nintendo of North America says it’s aware of what’s been described as a small third-party data breach affecting some of its employees.

“Nintendo’s systems have not been compromised,” the company told Mashable in a statement, acknowledging that a third-party service was affected by an “issue.”

Earlier this week, a hacking group calling itself ShadowByte$ posted a threat on a “well-known cybercrime forum,” according to CyberNews. The group alleged it stole 859MB of internal corporate data from a third-party service called TinyPulse, which collects employee feedback for companies.

Read more at Mashable.