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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[Maximumbeans]

16 years old, huh? I bet his brother did it..

Mom says it's MY turn to hack into Nintendo

 

[M7L7NK7]

You tell me..... I mean we have updates just to blacklist words its Nintendo after all

..You tell me, it's your story. When have they made an update in response to a leak?

 

[SylverReZ]

Looks like they were ahead of their time.

 

[MasterJ360]

..You tell me, it's your story. When have they made an update in response to a leak?

Since Team Xecuter?... since the Switch has been hacked? Which story or console you wanna start from?

 

[M7L7NK7]

Since Team Xecuter?... since the Switch has been hacked? Which story or console you wanna start from?

You said they released an update when a leak happened, what has that got to do with TX or the Switch being hacked?

 

[MasterJ360]

You said they released an update when a leak happened, what has that got to do with TX or the Switch being hacked?

Everything. They leaked and sold their code, but ofc you knew that right? The fact that you are prolonging this means you didn't get the stability meme.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Nintendo straight out refused my request for a developer account.
They said I could apply again whenever I had released multiple games on multiple other platforms.
Nintendo is just a bunch of idiots blinded by big money.

And I didn't even need to learn how to code!
But yeah, the higher ups imo are often jerks that just want money.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Everything. They leaked and sold their code, but ofc you knew that right? The fact that you are prolonging this means you didn't get the stability meme.

You were implying they released an update the last time a leak happened (like the gigaleaks), which isn't true. Plus TX didn't "leak" code.. you're not making sense

 

[MasterJ360]

You were implying they released an update the last time a leak happened (like the gigaleaks), which isn't true. Plus TX didn't "leak" code.. you're not making sense

So you want a cookie to prove my sarcasm is wrong over a claimed leak?
@CompSciOrBust: You know even "stability" can work for you if you touch grass. Thats not a meme its a fact

 

[ov3rkill]

Hackerman strikes again!

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

How he can do that?

Majick. (snort snort)

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

Let me hack it rly fast as well

Spoiler: H4XX1NG

 

[BaamAlex]

Oh boi I smell another "Stability" patch incoming

Stability confirmed

 

[Cylent1]

Could you imagine sxos playing the latest xci's?
Just maybe there is something in there,,,,,

 

[Bladexdsl]

welp that's what happen when you make a tablet instead of a console. tablets and phones can easily be hacked!

 

[bigskribbz]

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.

Strange, I was able to make an account and get full access, and I don't have any experience lol

 

[CompSciOrBust]

Even better would be a Nintendo signing tool. That to me would be the holy grail, being able to fake-sign home rew and pirated games to seem legit to an unhacked system. Reminds me of the PS3 days.

Modern consoles have their code signed by Hardware Signing Machines. The keys never leave that machine, so at most they would be able to get the software to interface with that machine, at which point Nintendo would just de-whitelist the software from accessing the machine (if it's even accessible outside of Nintendo's internal Network, firewalls work both ways). Even a leak of their game signing front end is overly optimistic though. Regular developers don't have access to that.

Edit: Also even if we got keys we wouldn't have the tickets to run any fake-signed software. E-Shop content needs signed ownership tickets as well as signed executables. I know 3DS had some special software that didn't need tickets (e.g the Louvre tour guide) but I'm not aware of any Switch equivalents.

Everything. They leaked and sold their code, but ofc you knew that right? The fact that you are prolonging this means you didn't get the stability meme.

You're full of shit. Even if TX did steal source code, what they hacked is unpatchable so an update would be useless. If they had stolen source code for something that could be patched, Nintendo wouldn't need to wait for them to be arrested in order to shit out a security update. Sounds like someone called you out for being stupid and now you're saying "But the memes- don't you know about this thing that never happened? I'm wrong? But the memes-"

 

[Subtle Demise]

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

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That's exactly how Twitter got "hacked *a couple years ago lol. Also ryanrocks got Nintendo that way too, which is hilarious that it happened twice to Shitendo lmaooooo

 

[spotanjo3]

Ouch, not a smart things to do. Yes, I am looking at you, a 16 years old. NIntendo is a monster and a predator to attack. They wants money. Beware.

 

[Clydefrosch]

unless this makes a lite easily homebrewable, i dont need it.