Nintendo of America confirmed today that its computer servers in the U.S. were infiltrated by the hacker group Lulzsec a few weeks ago, but no consumer information was compromised. The acknowledgement comes after Sony faced a massive security breach that took down the company’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity services for three weeks.

The attack on Nintendo does not appear to be as near as serious as the one on Sony, but it does bring more attention to online security issues.

In a statement provided to Reuters, Redmond-based Nintendo of America said that “the protection of our customer information is our utmost priority.”

The Guardian reports that Nintendo incident “is the latest in a global wave of high-profile hacking attacks,” including attacks on PBS and Lockheed Martin.

Lulzsec also recently admitted to hacking into Sony Pictures, but in the case of Nintendo the group said that it didn’t mean to cause any trouble. They wrote in a Tweet:

“Re: Nintendo, we just got a config file and made it clear that we didn’t mean any harm. Nintendo had already fixed it anyway. <3 them!”

The acknowledgement of the attack comes at a bad time for Nintendo, which plans to announce a new online service at this week’s E3 conference in LA.

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