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Nintendo: 'No Personal, Development, Business Info' Retrieved in Reported Data Hack

Nintendo, in a reply to the Sankei Shimbun newspaper regarding an alleged data breach performed by a hacking group last week, confirmed the hack. However, the company noted that it has not confirmed that the hack retrieved any personal information, or any game development or business information.

The Hackmanac X/Twitter account, which claims to track cyber attacks, posted on October 11 that hacking group Crimson Collective had supposedly breached Nintendo, teasing stolen assets, presumably as a prelude to extorting Nintendo.

An alleged leaker released almost a terabyte of data from Nintendo subsidiary and Pokémon game developer GAME FREAK in October 2024. The so-called "Teraleak" led to the names and company email addresses of 2,606 current and former GAME FREAK employees and contract workers being leaked. It also allegedly included information from upcoming projects, and assets from past games. The leaks reportedly include information on an unannounced Pokémon game for both the Switch and the then-planned Switch 2 successor, a separate unannounced Pokémon game co-developed with another studio, assets of unused graphics and music from past Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS, a planned live-action Pokémon Netflix show, and a planned sequel to the 2019 live-action Detective Pikachu film. Nintendo requested the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to issue a subpoena to compel Discord to share information on the "Teraleak" leaker in April earlier this year.

Source: Sankei Shimbun via Hachima Kikō