On Friday, the defendant in an ongoing case involving hacking into and leaking details from Nintendo's servers plead guilty to his charges. 21-year old Ryan Hernandez, otherwise known as RyanRocks, was brought up on charges of illegally obtaining information from Nintendo's servers, and for possession of child pornography. Originally, Hernandez's first offense was back in 2016--when he was still a minor at the time--where he managed to use a phishing technique in order to get ahold of a Nintendo employee's credentials to download pre-release promotional information about the Nintendo Switch, and then distribute it to the public.

His actions were reported to the FBI, who then visited Hernandez in the following year, informing him that he needed to stop the malicious and illegal behavior. Hernandez promised that he wouldn't continue to do such things, but the warnings were quickly disregarded, as in 2018, he hacked directly into Nintendo servers, once again obtaining information that he broadcast to others across the internet, even bragging publically about his exploits. In the middle of 2019, the FBI once again visited Hernandez, seizing technology involved in the hack, along with hard drives and "circumvention devices used to access pirated video games and software". It was there that not only did the FBI find the ill-gotten Nintendo files, but also hundreds of child pornography-related media.

Nevertheless, from at least June 2018 to June 2019, HERNANDEZ returned to his malicious activities, hacking into multiple Nintendo servers and stealing confidential information about various popular video games, gaming consoles, and developer tools. HERNANDEZ boasted about his hacking exploits on several online and social media platforms, such as Twitter and Discord, and leaked some of the stolen information to others. HERNANDEZ further operated an online chat forum called “Ryan’s Underground Hangout” in which he and others discussed Nintendo products and shared information about possible Nintendo network vulnerabilities, and on which he shared some of the confidential information he had stolen.

The maximum sentence for illegally hacking is only 5 years in prison, while possession of child pornography is a far greater issue, and has a maximum prison time of 20 years. Due to Hernandez's guilty plea, the lawyers involved with the case have recommended a sentence of 3 years, though this could be altered by the judge at the time of sentencing, which will take place on April 21, 2020. Additional stipulations to the case also include Hernandez agreeing to pay $259,323 in damages to Nintendo, and being forced to register as a sex offender, once he is free from prison.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors and defense attorneys, will recommend three years in prison. However, the ultimate sentence is up to the judge and could be up to the statutory maximums of 5 years in prison for computer fraud and abuse, and 20 years in prison for possession of child pornography.

HERNANDEZ has agreed to pay $259,323 in restitution to Nintendo for the remediation costs caused by his conduct. Under the terms of the plea agreement, HERNANDEZ also will be required to register as a sex offender following his conviction.

The case was investigated by the FBI, Seattle Cyber Task Force. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Steven Masada.

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[depaul]

Child porn sites are banned and always have been. You cannot find one on the worldwide web. I don't see the hypocrisy you're talking about. If you are comparing adult porn to child porn, then your logic is flawed in so many ways, and I would recommend that you read back what you just posted.

Of course I completely agree those are immoral and should be banned. The court should pursue the case further and sue the sources behind that content. But that's another story...

 

[the_randomizer]

Of course I completely agree those are immoral and should be banned. The court should pursue the case further and sue the sources behind that content. But that's another story...

Probably from some losers on 4chan or something

 

[DarkFlare69]

Of course I completely agree those are immoral and should be banned. The court should pursue the case further and sue the sources behind that content. But that's another story...

Maybe I misunderstood your original post then. It sounded like you were saying CP = regular porn. I also agree they should try to find the sources

 

[Ericzander]

Of course I completely agree those are immoral and should be banned. The court should pursue the case further and sue the sources behind that content. But that's another story...

Just to clarify, you mean the prosecutors should pursue the case further and charge the sources behind that content. This would be in a separate case and I'm sure they're going to do their due diligence to find the sources if they haven't already.

 

[XDel]

Woops, missed the part about child porn. That's not good.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Just to clarify, you mean the prosecutors should pursue the case further and charge the sources behind that content. This would be in a separate case and I'm sure they're going to do their due diligence to find the sources if they haven't already.

IMHO they should charge both the person who saved the content and the one that produced it.

I think a judge summarized it best: "Every time someone downloads, produces or saves CP, it's as if the kid involved pretty much gets abused all over again". (I think this one was from the TheCruel case).

 

[SaberLilly]

i imagine that the hacking charges are going to get reduced, but those CP charges aren't just gonna get swept under the rug. This guy's gonna be put away regardless.

 

[Ericzander]

IMHO they should charge both the person who saved the content and the one that produced it.

I think a judge summarized it best: "Every time someone downloads, produces or saves CP, it's as if the kid involved pretty much gets abused all over again". (I think this one was from the TheCruel case).

I 100% agree. Absolutely. Charge the hell out of Ryan Hernandez. As I said in an earlier post, viewing CP is NOT a victimless crime and everyone involved in the production and consumption need to be charged.

My response that you quoted was simply clarifying that it wouldn't be the "court suing them" it would be the "prosecutors charging them."

 

[DuoForce]

Hell yeah, fuck RyanRocks462! His ass got BUSTED

 

[smf]

One of which looks like a launch model? His parents bought him all of these on launch. Btw these are very old screenshots and not mine

The court papers listed two serial numbers of switches that they confiscated, I typed them into the web site that checks whether they are patched and one was reported as potentially 1.0 and the other 3.2

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I think a judge summarized it best: "Every time someone downloads, produces or saves CP, it's as if the kid involved pretty much gets abused all over again". (I think this one was from the TheCruel case).

Are you saying the judge equates them as equivalent? Because the courts don't appear to sentence on that basis & it wouldn't be helpful if they did.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Are you saying the judge equates them as equivalent? Because the courts don't appear to sentence on that basis & it wouldn't be helpful if they did.

It was a line used in the sentencing. It's best to not see it as an equation in terms of punishment legally, but more as an equation in terms of how horrible the act is supposed to be.

 

[smf]

It was a line used in the sentencing. It's best to not see it as an equation in terms of punishment legally, but more as an equation in terms of how horrible the act is supposed to be.

Certainly looking at a picture is no different to looking at it happening and pictures allow you to look at it again and again. Which may lead to desensitizing and a contact offense.

Sensationalizing disgust won't help people who are suffering from mental health issues which caused them to think that it was acceptable to look. If anything it makes it harder for people to get help.

 

[Pluupy]

You go research, the potential for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy is huge, and America and England are going to be adopting it soon by the latest progressions being made.

Cambridge even have a program on psychedelics as medicine.

I don't blame your reaction, there's a lot of stigma around what is medicine vs just a drug.

I do not believe anyone is evil, the things people do all stem from something, nobody decides they like anime or gaming without having exposure beforehand, and for some the exposure was their parents fault, there are so many broken families, and the children who have experienced trauma adopt fucked up coping mechanisms and live with them over their shoulder, and they never get past what happened and it consumes them.

Using psychedelics one can reason with themselves, with MDMA assisted psychotherapy people completely open up in a session, and due to the drugs influence on breaking down mental barriers, someone can fully come to terms and get past something that they may never have in their lifetime.

Drugs ruin lives. Its not a stigma. People hurt their loved ones in their overwhelming reliance and addiction to these drugs. This isn't therapy. These aren't magical experiences to reveal wisdom onto you. They manipulate the brain to overstimulate, panic, and malfunction.

I want you to go to a rehab facility and tell those people to their faces that they are better for having used drugs. Tell them that the government's banning of them is just "a stigma". Tell them that a single research paper is why they should be allowed to consume those drugs. Tell them that drugs aren't the reason they've emotionally and physical abused, or killed, their loved ones in the middle of a trip. Tell them the drugs were actually helpful coping mechanisms and that their reliance on the drug was their not their own fault. In fact, if their loved ones are there be sure to wear your clown suit on as you do it.

People like you make me fucking sick for enabling this trash.

 

[Mollycule]

Drugs ruin lives. Its not a stigma. People hurt their loved ones in their overwhelming reliance and addiction to these drugs. This isn't therapy. These aren't magical experiences to reveal wisdom onto you. They manipulate the brain to overstimulate, panic, and malfunction.

I want you to go to a rehab facility and tell those people to their faces that they are better for having used drugs. Tell them that the government's banning of them is just "a stigma". Tell them that a single research paper is why they should be allowed to consume those drugs. Tell them that drugs aren't the reason they've emotionally and physical abused, or killed, their loved ones in the middle of a trip. Tell them the drugs were actually helpful coping mechanisms and that their reliance on the drug was their not their own fault. In fact, if their loved ones are there be sure to wear your clown suit on as you do it.

People like you make me fucking sick for enabling this trash.

Sorry Agent Smith, but the world is moving on, your war on drugs has failed.

https://maps.org/

LSD and Psilocybin are not:

1. Habit forming (addictive), they are self regulating as many studies show, and with use the desire to take them decreases.
2. Harmful to health physically or mentally.
3. Drugs which cause violence.

They are:

1. Able to help someone overcome symptoms of autism.
2. Able to treat PTSD.
3. Can actually stop someone from using actual addictive drugs.
4. Treat depression that is resistant to antidepressants.
5. Raise the core body temperature and kill deep seated pathogens.

I don't appreciate your rudeness either, stop being such a bigot with your opinions and stating them as fact, everything I have written has facts backed up by health organizations and real professors and scientists who have published papers stating the facts I have written, with pharmacological evidence behind them.

 

[Hells Malice]

This thread is just 8 pages of some of the dumbest people history has ever seen trying to voice opinions based purely on ignorance and their feelings. It's amazing and also horrifying that such creatures can actually exist.

Guy did something illegal and got caught, got consequences. Suprised pikachu face.
Nintendo protects its property. Surprised pikachu face.
Pedophile gets jail time for a mountain of child pornography and GBAtemp dies on a hill protecting him. Surprised pikachu face.

Btw guys when you defend lolicon, sexual depictions of little prepubescent cartoon girls, surprise surprise you look really fucking creepy.

No one here has a remote grasp of what the FBI even is or what it does. Not that i'm surprised.

Just wow. It's interesting what a story like this can trick people into exposing about themselves so willingly and easily.

 

[carizard]

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6766658-Plea-Deal-Nintendo-Hacker.html

 

[Grmmish]

That's the stupidest shit I ever heard, do you even realize how bad and disgusting that shit is? What the hell is wrong with you? Pretty tough words coming from someone who lives in a country with a corrupt government.

I know all of this is sort of irrelevant to the post but I keep reading "Childporn this" "FBI that" so uh... I'll just play devil's advocate here just because I am curious what you guys will say.
Hacking should be a bigger crime than child pornography possession.

Hacking has the potential to:

- Ruin jobs. So this could destroy a company's promotional campaign if information that was meant to be released was widespread so it could as well ruin a company's "surprise", A.K.A. product. This product could actually have been what the entire business was relying on and it was just completely destroyed because the information about it was leaked. Furthermore, the information could have been leaked to competing businesses, which is like "Tail-gating" in investor terms... If you know what that is you should know.

- Ruin lives, families and perhaps relationships. Many people have entire families that rely on the job they potentially just lost because someone wanted to hack.


Yeah, sure all of these not as often have the worst case scenario happen, but how can you tell me that some little 5 year old who got pictures taken of her, probably forgot the entire experience, and was never heard of again in which she probably didn't even understand what was happening is WORSE than ruining good, honest people's lives?
I mean WORSE like... But 20 extra years in prison.

In fact, how about this.
What if the little 5 year old was raped, beaten and killed....
Sure that is HORRIBLE...

But how is that WORSE than ruining loads of families lives (Multiple little 5 year olds, a mom and a dad along with their private education probably.), jobs, dreams and aspirations just because one little girl died? ... But in this case, one little girl was "Photographed".

LOL Child pornography possession is bad, sure. But it really seems like a lot of you feel so "Demoralized" you slap on an extra hundred of "reputation loss" statuses.
I guess hacking is not "Demoralizing" to your guys? It should be but I guess you people don't have businesses that you need to make sure someone doesn't hack into and ruin your life...?

 

[smf]

I'll just play devil's advocate here just because I am curious what you guys will say.
Hacking should be a bigger crime than child pornography possession.

Er no. This guys hacks appear to have been round social engineering, some adult made a mistake disclosing information to him. With hacks the company is at least partly responsible for not doing it's best to protect access to their systems. Children don't have the same power or reasoning.

 

[Deleted User]

That's gonna get a big OOF from me. Did not expect the cp charges coming into the mix at all.

 

[the_randomizer]

I know all of this is sort of irrelevant to the post but I keep reading "Childporn this" "FBI that" so uh... I'll just play devil's advocate here just because I am curious what you guys will say.
Hacking should be a bigger crime than child pornography possession.

Hacking has the potential to:

- Ruin jobs. So this could destroy a company's promotional campaign if information that was meant to be released was widespread so it could as well ruin a company's "surprise", A.K.A. product. This product could actually have been what the entire business was relying on and it was just completely destroyed because the information about it was leaked. Furthermore, the information could have been leaked to competing businesses, which is like "Tail-gating" in investor terms... If you know what that is you should know.

- Ruin lives, families and perhaps relationships. Many people have entire families that rely on the job they potentially just lost because someone wanted to hack.


Yeah, sure all of these not as often have the worst case scenario happen, but how can you tell me that some little 5 year old who got pictures taken of her, probably forgot the entire experience, and was never heard of again in which she probably didn't even understand what was happening is WORSE than ruining good, honest people's lives?
I mean WORSE like... But 20 extra years in prison.

In fact, how about this.
What if the little 5 year old was raped, beaten and killed....
Sure that is HORRIBLE...

But how is that WORSE than ruining loads of families lives (Multiple little 5 year olds, a mom and a dad along with their private education probably.), jobs, dreams and aspirations just because one little girl died? ... But in this case, one little girl was "Photographed".

LOL Child pornography possession is bad, sure. But it really seems like a lot of you feel so "Demoralized" you slap on an extra hundred of "reputation loss" statuses.
I guess hacking is not "Demoralizing" to your guys? It should be but I guess you people don't have businesses that you need to make sure someone doesn't hack into and ruin your life...?

I don't necessarily agree, I think exploiting children should be punished more, because it's just sick and people who create the crap deserve to be locked up for longer but I digress