A hacking group claims to have accessed a large portion of Nintendo's data.
A hacking group called Crimson Collective has claimed to have successfully breached Nintendo's servers. Nintendo is very sensitive about its intellectual property and rights, and the latest move by the hacking group is a huge undertaking.
According to an image leaked on the X social network, the Crimson Collective group is in possession of folders related to file categories, production assets, and Nintendo developer files. The Japanese gaming giant has not yet released any official statement on the matter.
The Crimson Collective group is the same group that hacked Red Hat's GitHub a while ago and stole around 570 gigabytes of data. Red Hat flatly ignored the Crimson Collective's ransom demand.
It is likely that Crimson Collective wants to extort money from Nintendo and then delete the data in exchange for money. Otherwise, all confidential information will be released; of course, provided that the group's claim is true.
Hacking and infiltration of large companies' data is not uncommon in the gaming industry. For example, some of Rockstar's data was hacked in 2023 and part of the source code of the GTA 6 game was leaked.
Until Nintendo releases an official statement, we cannot fully trust the claims of the hacking group Crimson Collective.