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Hacker Who Stole Information From Nintendo Now Sentenced

 


A computer hacker who stole data from Nintendo and was recently caught with the possession of child pornography on his computer was condemned to three years in prison.

A resident of Palmdale, California, the accused goes by the name of Ryan S. Hernandez.

He had previously pleaded in January to 'one count of computer fraud and abuse and one count of possession of child pornography'.

The federal judge ordered Hernandez to be on seven years of supervised release following his term in the prison and register as a sex offender.

However, this isn't the first time when he was found engaging in illegal work. At the point when he was a minor, Hernandez was caught stealing 'confidential Nintendo files' in 2016. 

The FBI at that point had examined the matter and reached out to Hernandez and his parents following which he consented to quit hacking the company, as indicated by court records. 

Nonetheless, according to the prosecutors, Hernandez hacked Nintendo services and stole 'confidential info' about some rather well-known video games, gaming consoles, and developer tools from June 2018 to June 2019.

The FBI at that point had looked through his home and computers in 2019 and discovered several confidential Nintendo files also videos and images of minors engaged in a sexual act. 

The judge recommended Hernandez be imprisoned at a federal prison for detainees with cognitive challenges and hence ordered him to pay $259,323 in compensation to Nintendo.
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Nintendo Confirms Around 160,000 User Accounts Affected in Recent Hacks


On Friday, the Japanese gaming giant, Nintendo confirms that around 160,000 user accounts of Nintendo Switch users have been affected in the recent hacking attempts.

Nintendo's Switch game console is immensely popular among avid gamers and its demand has risen dramatically amid the lockdown forced by COVID-19 pandemic, making it out of stock almost everywhere. As the number of people turning to Nintendo is rapidly increasing, the number of hackers targeting digital accounts has also increased as a result.

In the wake of the breach, Nintendo has disabled the option of logging into a Nintendo account via Nintendo Network ID (NNID)– login IDs and passwords of the users have been acquired in an unauthentic way by some means other than Nintendo's service, the company confirmed. Notably, these attempts to access accounts illegally have been made since the beginning of April. The information compromised during the breach includes usernames, DOB, email addresses, and country.

The company has notified all the affected users of the breach through an email, alerting them to reset their passwords.
Meanwhile, the company also warned the users in case they have used a common password for their NNID and Nintendo account, and said, “your balance and registered credit card / PayPal may be illegally used at My Nintendo Store or Nintendo eShop.”

The company further recommended the users to enable two-factor authentication as some accounts are already being used to make fraudulent purchases. Affected users are advised to contact Nintendo so that the company can examine their purchase history and cancel fraudulent purchases.

"We will soon contact users about resetting passwords for Nintendo Network IDs and Nintendo Accounts that we have reason to believe were accessed without authorization," the company said.

While apologizing to the customers, Nintendo said, "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused and concern to our customers and related parties,"

"In the future, we will make further efforts to strengthen security and ensure safety so that similar events do not occur." the company added.
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Hacker Group make Nintendo Switch a Linux machine

As reported earlier this month, Hacker Group fail0verflow had tweeted a picture showing that they had managed to run Linux on Nintendo Switch. That was February 6; now, 12 days later, they have released a video on their account, providing proof of the same.

The video shows a Switch console running a Linux-based desktop environment KDE Plasma, with full touchscreen support and a web browser, something which the gaming console did not originally have.


While usually people hack into gaming consoles to play cracked versions of games, some people just enjoy running whatever kind of software they want on them. This seems to be one of those cases.

Fail0verflow is a hacking group that focuses its hacking efforts on gaming consoles and has recently taken up Nintendo Switch, as have many others.

While the hacking group has still not made public their exact method and code, it reportedly involves exploiting a flaw in the boot ROM of the Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1 chip. As they revealed last time, the video maintains that the flaw can’t be patched up by Nintendo on current devices but allegedly can be discussed in future production.
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Hackers run Linux on Nintendo Switch

Last week, hacker group fail0verflow shared a photo on Twitter, showing that they had managed to run Linux on the Nintendo Switch.


This tweet followed after a previous one in January where they explained that their Switch coldboot exploit is a boot ROM bug, which as suggested in the name, is a piece of code containing instructions about the booting process stored in a read-only memory.

They also revealed that it is not possible to fix the flaw using patches in the current Switches.


Earlier, they had also tweeted a scroller for the Switch.

While they have teased the exploit to the public, it may be a while before fail0verflow publicly release the details and code for their hack, as evidenced by the PS4 exploit that they demonstrated in 2016 and only revealed the details of over a year later.

Meanwhile, the Switch hacking community continues to make progress. After the 34C3 conference which left the console’s security wide open, it seems that it’s going to be easier for hackers to create homebrew software for the Switch and even pirate games, which could mean serious financial repercussions for Nintendo.

For those with technical knowledge who prefer the white hat route, however, Nintendo is still offering bounties on reports of vulnerabilities.


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