Nintendo was targeted in a recent online data attack, but no personal or company information was lost, the Japanese maker of the Wii game console said on Sunday.
The server of an affiliate of Nintendo's US unit was accessed unlawfully a few weeks ago, but there was no damage, company spokesman Ken Toyoda said.
"There were no third-party victims," Toyoda said, declining to elaborate. "But it is a fact there was some kind of possible hacking attack."
The damage from what could be part of a recent spate of such data breaches targeting big-name brands was more serious at rival Sony.
Sony has said massive personal information, including email addresses, names and birth dates, and involving more than 100 million users, is suspected of having been stolen after security was compromised in April for its network service for the PlayStation 3 game machine, for other online services and, in the past week, from Sony Pictures' website.
It is still unclear who is behind the attacks at Sony or Nintendo, based in Kyoto.
Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security - a reference to Internetspeak for "laugh out loud" - claim to have compromised more than 1 million Sony users' personal information, posting many of the details to the Internet.
Lulz Security also claimed credit for the Nintendo attack, posting what they said was a Nintendo server configuration file to the Web. The group added that they pulled the hack off just for fun.
"We're not targeting Nintendo," the group said in a message posted to Twitter over the weekend. "We like the N64 (gaming console) too much - we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap."
Acer said that the security violation is limited to customer names, addresses, phone numbers, email and serial numbers of the system. No credit card information was stolen, he said. Acer did not provide any other information about the attack and said the investigation was ongoing.
News of the breach was reported earlier this month, after a hacker group Pakistan Cyber Army claimed to have stolen the personal data of about 40,000 people from an Acer server in Europe. Acer did not comment on the attack at the time.
The Hacker News had published screen shots of the personal data and some of the source code that was stolen in the security breach. It also said that the Pakistan Cyber Army would issue a press release detailing more about their motives. But so far, no new information has surfaced from the hacking group.
The hacking group may be the same who had defaced the website of India's Central Bureau of Investigation in December. Hackers calling themselves the "Pakistan Army Cyber" and left a message stating that the violation was of such revenge attacks on Indian sites in Pakistan.
Tokyo-based Sony has said it is strengthening security measures. It has contacted the FBI and other authorities for an investigation into the cyber attacks.
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