I know this will come as a shock to some of you, but you really shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.
This weekend rumours circulated that the Nintendo Switch video game “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” contained code that would secretly hijack the game console’s processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Probably not the kind of think you expect as you attempt to conjour up everything from burritos to Baked Alaska.
The rumours – which appear to have first bubbled up on that ever reliable source of information, 4Chan – caught fire on Sunday, in a (now-deleted) tweet which described “Cooking Mama: Cookstar” as a “fake video game”:
To add fuel to the flames, was that just hours after the game’s release on the Nintendo eShop it was withdrawn without explanation.
Might Nintendo have pulled the game after discovering it was secretly cryptomining on its customers’ games consoles? That was certainly the theory being put around by some, like this Twitter user who posted a screenshot of a Discord discussion, that was subsequently retweeted almost 10,000 times:
Part of the screenshot read:
THIS IS URGENT apparently if you own Cooking Mama Cookstar uninstall that immediately its Usiing your system to mine Crypto Currency and potentially handig your personal info as well credit to Cybershroom for the heads up
Because if someone says something on Discord it has to be true, right?
Perhaps what helped add to the Cooking Mama cryptominin ..
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