Friday, February 11, 2011

Data PROTECTION investigating a filtration in a campaign of Nintendo

The Spanish Agency for Data Protection has launched an investigation at the request of Nintendo, access by a third to four thousand data of people enrolled in a campaign to promote the company was to hold events in different Spanish cities to Nintendo 3DS test. The campaign website and see test was 8 Means.

Nintendo has reported to the police and the Spanish Agency for Data Protection in a Web, adan gecko nickname, by the revelation of secrets and threats. The reason is an email sent to them in which they described a security hole page Nintendo promotional event for which he had had access to personal data of four thousand people entered the Web Site.

The email stated that "Given the seriousness of the offense is my duty as a citizen to communicate its existence to the authorities and eventually to those affected by it. However, I must admit that for me there is some interest and admiration for your company and its products, and therefore would not harm his image, which will surely happen if the scenario were to become public knowledge.

Therefore, I propose to initiate a negotiation to dialogue by which we come to an agreement that we avoid efforts both unnecessary legal business you operate and to me personally. " Nintendo felt that was being blackmailed. According to company sources, did not respond to it and reported the incident to the police, who yesterday was heard by the same author, a city of Malaga.

Adan gecko through Wiki. net, has described his version of what happened. While Nintendo says they have submitted the page to external expertise and have been detected hacking maneuvers, the author denies that any skill is needed to access data from the test site and see. Enough to go to the page of admission and without entering any personal information after clicking on the submit button was entered to that list.

It was discovered on February 6. In that forum, the internet user who posted the emails, writes that he regrets that his words were misinterpreted. The scope we wanted to give the term "negotiation" is discussed at the forum itself.

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