In late 2024, GameFreak was breached, and the person responsible for it was able to access well over 1TB of data from the company, including beta builds of Pokemon games, and even a working unfinished prototype of the still yet-unreleased Pokemon Legends Z-A. The leaker slowly released the contents of the leak over the course of a few months, though they remained adamant on not uploading Legends Z-A until the game came out. Whenever they uploaded content, they made mention of staying anonymous as to remain safe from Nintendo's legal team.

And for good reason, as Nintendo's legal team is now on the case. Nintendo has filed a subpoena within the US District Court, to Discord, requesting the address, name, and phone number of the person behind the leaker account. The leaker, known as "GameFreakOUT" had a Discord server where they were uploading and sharing the infringing materials to hundreds upon thousands of users.

There is a court precedence for Nintendo and Discord leakers. In 2019, a John Doe who uploaded an early copy of a Pokemon Sword and Shield guidebook was eventually brought to court, where they had to pay out $150,000 in damages over releasing pages of the guidebook prior to release. In that situation, Nintendo filed a legal complaint before even knowing the identity of the leaker.

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[The Catboy]

Imagine Nintendo investing even a faction of this energy into anything else

 

[Niels Van Son]

They're not ninjas anymore, they're hitmen

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

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In late 2024, GameFreak was breached, and the person responsible for it was able to access well over 1TB of data from the company, including beta builds of Pokemon games, and even a working unfinished prototype of the still yet-unreleased Pokemon Legends Z-A. The leaker slowly released the contents of the leak over the course of a few months, though they remained adamant on not uploading Legends Z-A until the game came out. Whenever they uploaded content, they made mention of staying anonymous as to remain safe from Nintendo's legal team.

And for good reason, as Nintendo's legal team is now on the case. Nintendo has filed a subpoena within the US District Court, to Discord, requesting the address, name, and phone number of the person behind the leaker account. The leaker, known as "GameFreakOUT" had a Discord server where they were uploading and sharing the infringing materials to hundreds upon thousands of users.

There is a court precedence for Nintendo and Discord leakers. In 2019, a John Doe who uploaded an early copy of a Pokemon Sword and Shield guidebook was eventually brought to court, where they had to pay out $150,000 in damages over releasing pages of the guidebook prior to release. In that situation, Nintendo filed a legal complaint before even knowing the identity of the leaker.

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Honestly this one is deserved. He also went through and leaked tons of worker's personal information.

 

[YuseiFD]

Imagine Nintendo investing even a faction of this energy into anything else

Bro satisfying costumers is NOT on their agenda, they played waaaaaaaaaaay too much payback to pull the funds from under their lawyers

 

[Deleted member 702243]

imagine using discord for something like this

 

[Deleted member 671727]

Staying anonymous in 2025..well good luck!
I dont think it was a genius idea to spread these files over discord. They are way safer ways available.

This will not end well for him i think.
Hope he had made some good money... Ninty will gladly take it.

 

[Kioku]

Anybody using Discord for shady dealings is, without a doubt, one of the dumbest people on the planet.

Good luck and Godspeed my little dipshit.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Pretty understandable thing to be looking to sue over honestly. (Not that I haven't ate up information from such Nintendo/Pokemon leaks all the same.)

 

[DJPlace]

well at least everyone's on NINTENDO's side of things this time.

 

[Viri]

I mean the guy hacked Nintendo's servers and doxed a bunch of employees, it's hard to feel bad for the guy. Even if the info on their employees was outdated, it's still fucked. lol


If I hacked a billion dollar company for video game leaks, I'd stick to the video game stuff, not dox everyone on their payroll.

 

[gamefan5]

I mean, what the leaker did is technically illegal, so I don't care if Nintendo, Sony, whatever other company goes that far to get the guy, he's gonna get rightfully rekt.

 

[Bladexdsl]

message from nintapple: Your cities will not be safe. Your streets will not be safe. You will not be safe

 

[LightBeam]

I was about to feel bad for the guy ... and then he shared that on Discord lmao

Wtf do they think, that Discord isn't going to give Nintendo everything they have ? You have confidential information, and you can't even ask yourself "how do I share that while risking as little as possible" ? Come on

 

[Deleted member 671727]

well at least everyone's on NINTENDO's side of things this time.

No not really. But its obvious that nintendo will get him, so we wish him the best luck!

Nintendo is a love and hate story for me. I love many games and franchises, but i hate how the company is acting the last maybe 10 years.

 

[Noctosphere]

When you are no longer a video game company, but an IP company
(You think Mcdonald is a fast food company? Well flashnews, they are not)

 

[halfashark]

im not saying i support the person/people who doxxed anyone but the fact that a company can leave private information (property) out in the open with jank (broken) security (lock) and suffer no repercussions for it bothers me in different ways.

 

[Eddypikachu]

They keep churning out doo doo quality pokemon games and then spend their money doing this shit instead

 

[Osha]

Yeah, on one hand, I think that kind of information about games should be public knowledge because it's extremely cool to be able to get a direct look into how the medium has evolved from conception to release, but on the other hand, dude had no reason to release sensitive information about actual people, that part's ridiculous, and I can't really blame Nintendo for taking action even if what's done is done.

 

[Axido]

This will not end well for him i think.
Hope he had made some good money... Ninty will gladly take it.

Hope he didn't and all Ninty gets is to pay their lawyers for nothing.