A 21-year old Palmdale, California resident Ryan S. Hernandez has pleaded guilty to hacking into Nintendo Co. LTD’s servers and stealing proprietary information. The accused has admitted to committing several federal crimes including hacking and possessing child pornography content.
Hernandez was arrested back in June 2019, when he was a minor, but by then he had already hacked into the servers of Nintendo Co. twice. The first time he managed to access Nintendo’s servers was in 2016. Reportedly, Hernandez used very basic phishing techniques to trick Nintendo Co.’s employees into handing over access credentials of the company’s corporate network to him.
Using the information he hacked the company’s servers and obtained critical details about unreleased Nintendo products including the Switch Console, which he later leaked online. He conducted the cybercrime with the help of an associate and used the online ID “RyanRocks” to access Nintendo’s servers.
In a press release, the Department of Justice highlighted details of how the FBI discovered child explicit content on Hernandez’s electronic devices.
In June 2019, FBI agents searched Hernandez’s home and seized numerous electronic devices, including computers, hard drives, and circumvention devices used to access pirated video games and software. On those devices, they discovered thousands of confidential Nintendo files. Forensic analysi ..
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