{"id":540,"date":"2017-09-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/you_can_now_enable_two-step_authentication_for_your_nintendo_account"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:00:00","slug":"you-can-now-enable-two-step-authentication-for-your-nintendo-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/you-can-now-enable-two-step-authentication-for-your-nintendo-account\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Enable Two-Step Authentication For Your Nintendo Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside\/>\n<p class=\"description\">Security and stability<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/741\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Dazza\"\/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Dazza\">Darren Calvert<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><time class=\"date age\" datetime=\"2017-09-22T14:00:00+00:00\"><span>16 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\" readability=\"33.372093023256\">\n<section class=\"text\" readability=\"35.96586059744\">\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/you_can_now_enable_two-factor_authentication_for_your_nintendo_account\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/you_can_now_enable_two-factor_authentication_for_your_nintendo_account\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Two-Factor Authentication\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We already know that Nintendo has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/stability\">some of the most stable hardware out there<\/a>, but thanks to the introduction of Two-Step Verification today, now your Nintendo Account can be super-secure, too.<\/p>\n<p>When you opt-in you will be using <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/landing\/2step\/\">Google&#8217;s 2-Step Verification system<\/a>, which of course makes everything as painless as possible. You&#8217;ll simply need to use an app on your phone to scan a QR code. Job done!<\/p>\n<p>Head over to\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/security\">https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/security<\/a> to enable the extra layer of security on your Nintendo Account. You can also change your username \/ sign-in ID too, which is more than you can do on the PlayStation Network.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you feel more secure with these two-steps with a comment below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/security\" href=\"https:\/\/accounts.nintendo.com\/security\">accounts.nintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security and stability by Darren Calvert 16 hours ago We already know that Nintendo has some of the most stable hardware out there, but thanks to the introduction of Two-Step Verification today, now your Nintendo Account can be super-secure, too. When you opt-in you will be using Google&#8217;s 2-Step Verification system, which of course makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}