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16-year-old claims to have hacked Nintendo's developer portal, leaks 50GB of files

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A fledgling hacker appears to have taken advantage of a lack of security on Nintendo's official developer portal, leading to the leak of over 50 gigabytes of internal files relating to the Nintendo NX, development tools, SDKs, and more. The hacker happens to be a 16-year-old, stating that they have little to no actual hacking experience. but still managed to have gotten credentials to a Nintendo developer account, and used it to grab whatever they could off the CDN, and then extract the proprietary compressed files. According to them, the leak contains:

- Documents related to the inner workings of the NX system (NX is the codename for Nintendo Switch)
- Development tools related to game development of Nintendo (NintendoSDK and Unity for NX)
- Source code related to tools by Nintendo that are used in many Nintendo Switch games!
- Backend code for Nintendo networking (NPLN, NEX, Pia)
- And a whole lot more (graphics, files, etc.)
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So in essence, it's the same files that anybody who signed up to the developer portal has access to?
I'm pretty sure at least a dozen different versions of this have already been leaked, doubt there's anything new here besides maybe newer versions of the tools.
 
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I bet Nintendy has this kid right now, holding him for ransom from his parents, or else they will release his game "Wishlist" to the public. Flipping the script!
 
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x65943 said:
I know it's a pipe dream but imagine if some kid leaked TOTK
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carnbyds said:
yeh, a software only hack would be great for the Switch...
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Usual rules apply, unfortunately. Not a single one of the devs from the Switch homebrew scene would touch any leaks with a 10 foot barge poll.

While hacking any computer system is 100% a crime and will end with you in jail, using proprietary code in your already grey area hack would give Nintendo the ammunition to go after the entire hacking scene and could end up hurting everyone forever (also worth noting that even rewriting Nintendo code while you have access to it is not a solution either, if Nintendo can prove you used their code to create yours then you'd still get bent over by the judge and have the court filings inserted).

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So he e-mailed a developer posing as IT and asked for their username and password?

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People always post this kinda stuff and I always have the same reaction to it.... A hack is a hack, it literally means to gain unauthorised access to an otherwise restricted computer system, nothing more.

The method of access is irrelevant, social engineering is still hacking since stealing the details isn't really the hack, the hack only happens once you use those credentials to gain access to something you shouldn't have access too.
 
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x65943 said:
Poor dude, that kid is gonna get reamed if he hasn't already

I wonder if any of these leaks will help with hacking the switch

I know it's a pipe dream but imagine if some kid leaked TOTK
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hope he lives in anywhere but the US
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thesjaakspoiler said:
I tried signing up 3 months ago.
It's true that anyone can sign up but that doesn't mean you get granted access to the developer portal.
I applied on a personal account as an Indie developer and with my corporate email but in both instances they just refused to make an account. Even with providing documents that I have published several games in the past.
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guess you can make your game now lol
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impeeza said:
Will not happen, the full HOS code was de-compiled already before the leak and no vulnerability yet.
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just cause it was decompiled doesnt mean that they didnt miss something, and with the size of HOS, i would be surprised if there isn't a vulnerability. If we got the source code, with comments and all, it would be a lot easier to find a vulnerability in than in someone's interpretation of the code.
 
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