{"id":247,"date":"2017-09-22T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/306336"},"modified":"2017-09-22T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:55:00","slug":"nintendo-accounts-now-support-two-step-verification-via-google-authenticator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/nintendo-accounts-now-support-two-step-verification-via-google-authenticator\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Accounts now support two-step verification via Google Authenticator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has now joined the ranks of game companies that allow players to add an additional layer of security to their online accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company has <a href=\"https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/login?post_login_redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.nintendo.com%2F2fa%2Fauthenticator\">added two-step verification<\/a> as an optional feature for Nintendo Accounts through the Google Authenticator app.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, players that choose to enable the feature will need\u00a0to enter an additional six-digit code generated by the Google app when logging into their Nintendo Account.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, two-step verification prevents would-be troublemakers from accessing an account with just a stolen password since they\u2019d also need access to the account owner\u2019s smartphone to\u00a0log in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/279920\/Sony_fortifies_PSN_with_twostep_verification.php\">PlayStation notably introduced two-step verification<\/a> to PlayStation Network accounts just over a year ago, though Sony\u2019s security offering sends codes via text message rather than through its own or a third-party app. Games like <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> and <em>Final Fantasy XI<\/em> and <em>XIV<\/em> have also made use of the security feature in the past, providing verification codes via physical authenticators prior to the rise of smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has now joined the ranks of game companies that allow players to add an additional layer of security to their online accounts.\u00a0 The company has added two-step verification as an optional feature for Nintendo Accounts through the Google Authenticator app. Going forward, players that choose to enable the feature will need\u00a0to enter an additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}