According to The Verge, a Californian man pleaded guilty to hacking the servers of Nintendo, stealing confidential files, including various related information Nintendo Switch, months before this was officially announced. The news was revealed today from US Department of Justice. According to the DOJ, Ryan Hernandez (21 years old), he was an employee of Nintendo in the "distant" 2016, for this reason he was able to gain access and steal confidential information of the Japanese company. In October 2017, theFBI he contacted Hernandez and his parents, asking him to stop such activities, from that moment the boy "confirmed that he understood the consequences of any future hacking".
Despite this, from June 2018 to June 2019, Hernandez continued to illegally access confidential information, breaking into "multiple Nintendo servers" and continuing to steal confidential information. The boy, caught red-handed by the FBI in June 2019, he was also accused of possessing child pornography material. The DOJ says Hernandez has already agreed to pay $ 259.323 to Nintendo as part of a plea deal. The full sentence will be determined by a judge, which the Department believes could be up to five years in prison for hacking or up to 20 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
