A Spanish hacker has been arrested by police following a threat that he would go public with personal information on 4,000 Nintendo users.
The hacker approached Nintendo’s Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica and attempted to blackmail the company according to Spain’s Interior Ministry. The hacker apparently managed to hack into Nintendo’s database and threatened to publish the information on the Internet via an online forum if Nintendo didn’t agree to his demands.
Nintendo decided not to comply with his demands and subsequently the hacker decided to leak a small number of users information online forcing Nintendo Spain to contact the police. Thankfully the hacker was caught before he decided to leak the entire database on the Internet. The individual was arrested in the southern Spanish province of Malaga.
Quite idiotic. Everyone knows blackmail is very risky. Especially against big corporations. He deserved it.
Extra Large Fail.
Do you know what “his demands” were?
He wanted a 3DS a month early. :D
Oh, then it’s understandable xD
I would have been impressed (and slightly scared) if Nintendo called in a hit man to “take care of him” XD
Miyamoto’s secret ninja army.
What do you think he does now that he’s CEO ofNintendo Japan? Don’t see him developing anything do you? He goes around “silencing” people. I mean what do you think happened to that Chinese assembly line worker?
lol they would call in “The Brothers”
What were his demands?
Did he want Jack Thompson’s “Modest Video Game Proposal” made?
This is why I don’t like hacking things.
Did he happen to be a jealous Sony fanboy?
Serves him right, 100%… I’m a Nintendo user. ;)
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No es así como lo contais.
El hacker no quiso chantajear, tan solo avisar a Nintendo de que, su página web era muy insegura.
YA QUE REDACTAIS, HACED EL FAVOR DE REDACTAR BIEN.
This totally FALSE. Nintendo didn’t have any kind of security on their databases, and this individual mailed Nintendo advertising he was going to sue them because of this according to the data protection law.I don’t know what kind of treats they did with Spanish politicals, but now, this man has been arrested because of trying to do the right thing. Don’t believe this please, they are all dirty LIES!
You‘re publishing lies. try to investigate before publishing anything ( do a better job)