Ryan Hernandez, a 21-year-old Palmdale, California man, has been sentenced to three years in prison by the U.S. District Court in Seattle after pleading guilty to hacking into Nintendo servers, leaking details about the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch before its 2017 launch, as well as f🍰or possession of child pornograph🎶y.
According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Hernandez, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:known online as RyanRocks, stole the credentials of a Nintendo employee through phishing and accessed 🦹confidential company information, which was leaked on social media platforms between 2016 and 2017.
A minor at the time, his parents were 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:contacted by the FBI after an investigation. He had promised to stop his activities but continued “hacking into multiple Nintendo servers and stealing confidential information about various popular video ga☂mes, gaming consoles, and developer tools” between 2018 to 2019.
In June of 2019, the FBI searched his residence and confiscated several devices that contained hacked Nintendo files and thousands of child pornography photos and videos, labeled Bad Stuff. Aside from his prison sentence, which he will initially spend at at a Bureau of Prisons facility for inmates with cognitive difficulties, Hernandez is expected to pay $259,323 in damages to Nintendo, regisꦯter as a sex offender and spend seven years of supervised release after leaving prඣison.
Last year, a London court sentenced two men to prison for hacking into Microsoft and Nintendo's internal servers, stealing confidential company information and sharing access details over IRC channels. Security researcher Zammis Clark, 24, used an internal username and password in January of 2017 to gain access to a Microsoft server and stole roughly 𒀰43,000 files. Meanwhile, Thomas Hounse🅘ll, 26, used Clark’s data to search for product information on Microsoft's servers.
In total, Nintendo estimated that Clark’s activities had cost the company between $900,000 to $2 million in dama🐬ges, while Microsoft claimed $2 million. Clark was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended for 18 months. Hounsell was sentenced to six months in prison, also suspended for 18 months, plus 100 hours of community service.
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