On Friday, the defendant in an ongoing case involving hacking into and leaking details from Nintendo's servers plead guilty to his charges. 21-year old Ryan Hernandez, otherwise known as RyanRocks, was brought up on charges of illegally obtaining information from Nintendo's servers, and for possession of child pornography. Originally, Hernandez's first offense was back in 2016--when he was still a minor at the time--where he managed to use a phishing technique in order to get ahold of a Nintendo employee's credentials to download pre-release promotional information about the Nintendo Switch, and then distribute it to the public.

His actions were reported to the FBI, who then visited Hernandez in the following year, informing him that he needed to stop the malicious and illegal behavior. Hernandez promised that he wouldn't continue to do such things, but the warnings were quickly disregarded, as in 2018, he hacked directly into Nintendo servers, once again obtaining information that he broadcast to others across the internet, even bragging publically about his exploits. In the middle of 2019, the FBI once again visited Hernandez, seizing technology involved in the hack, along with hard drives and "circumvention devices used to access pirated video games and software". It was there that not only did the FBI find the ill-gotten Nintendo files, but also hundreds of child pornography-related media.

Nevertheless, from at least June 2018 to June 2019, HERNANDEZ returned to his malicious activities, hacking into multiple Nintendo servers and stealing confidential information about various popular video games, gaming consoles, and developer tools. HERNANDEZ boasted about his hacking exploits on several online and social media platforms, such as Twitter and Discord, and leaked some of the stolen information to others. HERNANDEZ further operated an online chat forum called “Ryan’s Underground Hangout” in which he and others discussed Nintendo products and shared information about possible Nintendo network vulnerabilities, and on which he shared some of the confidential information he had stolen.

The maximum sentence for illegally hacking is only 5 years in prison, while possession of child pornography is a far greater issue, and has a maximum prison time of 20 years. Due to Hernandez's guilty plea, the lawyers involved with the case have recommended a sentence of 3 years, though this could be altered by the judge at the time of sentencing, which will take place on April 21, 2020. Additional stipulations to the case also include Hernandez agreeing to pay $259,323 in damages to Nintendo, and being forced to register as a sex offender, once he is free from prison.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors and defense attorneys, will recommend three years in prison. However, the ultimate sentence is up to the judge and could be up to the statutory maximums of 5 years in prison for computer fraud and abuse, and 20 years in prison for possession of child pornography.

HERNANDEZ has agreed to pay $259,323 in restitution to Nintendo for the remediation costs caused by his conduct. Under the terms of the plea agreement, HERNANDEZ also will be required to register as a sex offender following his conviction.

The case was investigated by the FBI, Seattle Cyber Task Force. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Steven Masada.

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[carizard]

scum of the earth

 

[Deleted User]

wasn't this the guy who leaked stuff without other dev's permission?? namely some SDK things and ugopwn

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ugopwn-usa-flipnote-studio-dsi-sploit.479353/

Well, it seems Ninty made a favor for us all.

i thought that pokeacer leaked that

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

This guy kinda deserved it but...
Nintendo can you fucking stop suing people!?

 

[ChibiMofo]

I'm just glad that this pedohacker isn't being defended here by his family, unlike the last pedohacker that got 20 years.

And frankly 20 years is not enough for those whose actions lead to the sexual abuse of children. Certainly 3 years isn't either. Hopefully the judge will ignore the plea deal and throw the book at this subhuman.

The good news is that pedos are always "popular" in prison.

This guy kinda deserved it but...
Nintendo can you fucking stop suing people!?

Nintendo will stop suing people when people stop violating their rights. I haven't seen a single case where they were unjustified. And he didn't "kinda" deserve it. He absolutely deserved it.

 

[VinsCool]

Jesus Christ ._.
I remember when he was around on GBAtemp and twitter, at the time he was just a kid, involved in illegal activities, but like, harmless otherwise.
Somewhat actions bring consequences.

This guy kinda deserved it but...
Nintendo can you fucking stop suing people!?

Can't people stop being stupid and do illegal things?

 

[Darth Meteos]

wasn't this the guy who leaked stuff without other dev's permission?? namely some SDK things and ugopwn

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ugopwn-usa-flipnote-studio-dsi-sploit.479353/

Well, it seems Ninty made a favor for us all.

No, it was PokeAcer, wasn't it?

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Can't people stop being stupid and do illegal things?

the rules are there to break them i guess?

 

[VinsCool]

the rules are there to break them i guess?

If you willingly break the rules, you should expect to get caught one day and pay the price *inserts surprised pikachu meme*

 

[the_randomizer]

Sounds like a fine subhuman piece of shit to me, glad he got everything he deserved.

Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time, what a dumbass.

 

[regnad]

How is this guy ever going to pay $250,000 to Nintendo? With his prison record and sex offender registration he'll be lucky to earn enough to feed himself when he gets out.

 

[Something whatever]

big ooof. wtf

 

[Lazyt]

I don’t remember Ryan Hernandez to release any NX leaks or any other leaks what so ever.

 

[the_randomizer]

I don’t remember Ryan Hernandez to release any NX leaks or any other leaks what so ever.

He was probably in the same mentality as Team Overfl0w who were nothing more than a bunch of cockteasing wannabes

 

[garyopa]

I don’t remember Ryan Hernandez to release any NX leaks or any other leaks what so ever.

He never released exploits publicly, but privately he shared what he stole from other developers some of whom had submitted the details to bug bounty program, which he also hacked into to get info on what was being submitted.

And via his discord server and his friends he shared all the Nintendo sdk's from the devnet and advanced beta firmwares, he phished one of the top Nintendo employee and used his login ids to make himself his own account on devnet to get download access to the sdk's and even ordered himself few devkit machines (that is the money part) as all the charges for the kits were placed onto nintendo's corp. accounts.

luckly most people cut ties with him a while ago, as most likely he been working as 'rat' for feds for a while, as he got scooped up long time ago, only now they tieing up loose ends as he most likely no longer useful to them to keep around feeding them info.

 

[Captain_N]

Just because the fuck pleas guilty does not mean he should be given a lesser prison sentence. When he was a minor he should have been tossed in jail.

 

[Coto]

I think ugopwn was someone else, not sure if I can say his name because he's banned

i thought that pokeacer leaked that

AFAIK internally, yes. but in the link description (of the ugopwn leak link) people said ryanrocks made the leak public

not that I care anyway, IIRC ryanrocks made a lot of leaks earlier (I think some early 3DS CFW) and was pretty much blacklisted around devs

edit: ok I take that back, I think the other fail guy was giovanify or something like that. But that was like 6 years ago and whatever.

 

[TheZander]

He's probably going to tell them all about gbagemp

 

[Scarlet]

He's probably going to tell them all about gbagemp

what about it? lol
It's not like anything here can't be readily accessed by the public.

 

[Ericthegreat]

Since he seems good enough to get in to Nintendo's servers I wonder if the porn was to blackmail people, dunno if that's be any better in his sentencing or not though.

 

[weatMod]

Lmfao get fucked pedo

yeah cuz i am sure the FBI and Nintendo are totally above planting some CP on you to make sure they ruin your life