Nintendo's On A Mission To Unmask The Pokémon 'Teraleak' Hacker

Makes you wonder why they do this when everyone knows Nintendo Ninjas are cutting people down for it...

Hope bro enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame because they’ve been marked for annihilation.

He brought us the lore of the ancients, the good, the bad, and the ugly of it all. A formidable scribe of the otherwise to-be lost media.

May he keep uncovering the past of franchises, like the Indiana Jones of gaming. Lost media is such an interesting topic

edit: got informed he also leaked some private info, he lost my vote.

Just trying to silence the brave whistleblower that revealed the truth about Typhlosion.

Interesting they are able to trace people like this, as using a few vpns which don’t have logs and spoofing Mac and ips would sort any trace whatsoever. Then create false accounts using different emails etc. you would have to be a real ego to give them even a sniff of the real you, but I guess that might be how it works in hacking circles and trading of hacks etc

It amazes me that in this day and age people still believe there are no consequences for their actions. You commit a crime, you pay the price. Don't commit crimes. It's that simple.

The leaker is hearing botw guardian music right about now

They're gonna drop seven nuclear bombs on their house.

@Blofse At this stage, if the hacker followed your measures, applied security best practices and Nintendo is actually requesting Discord’s support to identify the hacker, my opinion is that they’ll not catch him anytime soon. What kind of useful information is Discord gonna provide them other than VPNs IPs, useless mac or e-mail addresses and the entirety of its messages (public and private) ? Nintendo’s only hope is that it’s a random guy having had access to this information in a way or another and not a hacker having sound security knowledge. Very strange also that this request to Discord comes so late…

@Princess_Lilly it's an interesting topic when shared, not smuggled.

@Vyacheslav333 the person leaked personal employee information. They deserve to be caught and jailed

@nhSnork I think it would be very bad if they shared some personal data, secrets etc. But in this case, they revealed some lore of the games decades after their release.

@Gatorclops wait wasn't it about the leak for the lore, with Arceus actually being called Eos and Typlosion lore?

That discord user now knows that Nintendo is coming for them. They'd be sleeping with one eye open now

@Princess_Lilly yeah same leak, the leaker also got access to Game Freaks employee files

Curious why it's Nintendo doing all this and not GameFreak. Sure Pokemon is a Nintendo IP but all the leaks happened from GF's servers.

@Ampen indeed so. Just seems unlikely they will get this person one way or another, but I guess if they manage to get stuff like this from discord then it sets a precedent for things like emulation to come next. So maybe it’s a legal tactic to thin end of the wedge another way to get the rest of the emulation population?

On one hand, hoping the leaker doesn't get caught because they will absolutely receive a massive punishment way disproportionate to the harm they've caused society. Whoever it is doesn't deserve to be destitute or in jail and those are real possibilities. (EDIT i forgot the leak of employee personal info. Nvm screw this leaker, they do deserve heavy punishment.)

OTOH, leaking Nintendo secrets is one of the riskiest things you can do without the aid of a deadly weapon, so it's hard for me to be very empathetic the way it's tough for me to feel bad about illegal street racers wrecking their cars. Also, this stuff isn't just harming corporate profits--there are hundreds of real artists working on these projects, and for any of their work in progress not intended for public consumption to be leaked is a huge downer. Artists spend a lot of time on ideas that don't work to arrive at ideas that do, and if they're worried about the public finding out about the former, they may he a lot less likely to take big risks during their process. Especially interesting here as people constantly criticize Game Freak for playing it safe with their new games.

Whatever writer was responsible for that Typhlosion craziness probably had zero intention of that version of things ever seeing the light of day outside of internal meetings, or even their own computer. Perhaps they were just trying to experiment with the wildest ideas possible, just to see what they can come up with on the way to something more ready for the public.

@MK73DS Might just be a matter of Nintendo having much more powerful legal resources and taking the lead on this as a result

@Vyacheslav333 it was personal information.

A lot of people glossed over it. But the leaker actually hot chewed out by the leaker community because you are supposed to currate that before you dump.

Leaking personal information and stuff isn't cool. But the leaker just wanted his 15 minutes of fame and didn't care.

So screw that loser he's no hero. He's just a hacker that wanted attention.

This leaker must be protected at all costs. They've uncovered a lot of beta info on Gamefreaks past games that would had never been known were it not for them.

@demacho from what I've heard the typhlosion lore wasn't actually even that crazy. It was just translated poorly.

Like apparently the girl wasnt as young as people think and it was consensual? So it was still implied human/pokemon romance but apparently it wasn't actually as creepy when properly translated.

I can't say this with 100% certainty... But honestly it makes sense so until I hear otherwise I'll go with the more logical answers over the sensational one.

@AlexanderDaniels he also leaked private employee information that could be used to stalk or harass them.

@Metazoxan Okay. You have a point here.

@John_Deacon if I remember right it was basically he hacked their private servers.and just dumped everything he got.

So the dump included ANYTHING that you might find in a company's private server.

Again normally a leaker that gets this kind of info currates it first to avoid DOXXing the employees. But apparently this one either didn't know how because they don't know Japanese or just didn't care.

I remember people raising a fuss about it since it makes the leaker community look bad when private info gets leaked.

For everyone defending this guy remember he leaked personal information about employees

Been playing Mega Man Battle Network, so now I’m hearing the boss theme.

@FawfulsFury
And thsat dreaded red lazer thru their window 😹

I only played AgeOfCalamity. Those things are scary

@Metazoxan it also makes more sense when you understand Japanese mythology, too. Many pokemon are based on mythical creatures, like a 9 tailed fox, or Baku (a dream eating tapir). The Typhlo story is based on such fables and reads like one of them. Apparently it's like some story of a Mujina/badger (and Typhlosion is supposed to be a Mujina). Can't verify though as I heaven't read anything similar, I specialize in Kitsune/Nekomata more.

@blindsquirrel yeah he lost my vote when someone kindly informed me about that one. Long time no see btw.

Didn't even remember this was a thing. Hope that fleeting clout was worth the freight train they'll be tanking.

The leaker should have only leaked the game files/documents, not people's personal information. Putting actual employees at risk by leaking their e-mails, names, telephone numbers, etc, is just irresponsible and benefits no one. If the leak was just for game preservation, then I don't know why they would release that information

@Dinglehopper because it wasn't for game preservation.

The vast majority of the leaked data aside from employee info was future stuff or early drafts so rough there was no reason they needed to see the light of day.

Don't hero worship leakers like they're all robin hoods saving gaming history. Most just want clout and attention. Although most are polite enough to at least not doxx employees in the process.

@Metazoxan Sounds like this leaker was most likely a clout chaser then, as opposed to a game preservationist. Like you said, most leakers wouldn't release files that doxx employees. It's like this leaker just took everything they could find and leaked it all without a single thought behind what it might contain.

I don't necessarily hero worship leakers (because I know a bunch of them ARE just clout chasing), but I will always be sort of...thankful, I guess? Even if it wasn't their intention, they still did a great service for game preservationism. It's just a shame that the people behind it probably didn't even care about it to begin with

@blindsquirrel what private information?

@PharoneTheGnome but what if they don't get caught

Game Freak will never get sympathy from me. They have children hooked on gambling while they push out the most bottom of the barrel content imaginable. This couldn't have happened to a better company and I hope it keeps happening.

@Vyacheslav333

And what if it was your personal info thay was leaked online? Seriously? People like you i dont understand. Poor employees!

@axelhander

And if they do and leak your personal info next, are you happy then ? Poor employees. Leaking their info is only about money and black mail. But good for you siding with the criminal

@Interneto i have read that its usually their home adress, phone number , names, private email etc. That info is often sold at the dark web for scammers.

Wow. Just wow.

They didn't reveal interesting lore, people!!

They revealed thoughts and ideas that the developers felt weren't up to snuff to be released. Creativity means ypu pursue ideas that may end up in the bin because they were not good ideas. That doesn't make them "canon", that makes them ideas that got canned.

It's not game preservation, it's preservation of a digital bin of crumpled up papers, plus private information, which is just plain criminal.

And sure, there can be some value in those tossed ideas for those interested, but it's still up to the company if they want to release them. This is still just theft, plain and simple.