A young man caught hacking into Nintendo’s servers to steal secret Switch blueprints has been sentenced to three years in prison after ignoring an FBI warning to stop.
According to court documents [PDF] Ryan Hernandez of Palmdale, California, is now 21 though in 2016, while a minor, he requested help on a Nintendo forum. An engineer at the Japanese giant clicked on a link in that post and was taken to a malicious website that secretly obtained the staffer's login credentials for Nintendo's developer portal. These were then used to gain administrator access on the internal site.
From there, he stole reams of Nintendo's confidential information, some of it on the yet-to-be-announced Switch console, that he then posted online. This attracted the attention of ..
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