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Game Freak Hacker Might Have Access To Pokemon Source Code For "The Switch Games"

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Oct 22, 2024

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Updated 22/10/2024 at 17:13 BST: An "incomplete version" of Legends: Arceus' source code has reportedly been posted online since this article went live.

Summary

The hacker behind the enormous Game Freak leaks has revealed that they were able to breach the developer's GitLab.
For context, that means they had access to all of the company's current work, and potentially even past projects.
Things appeared to be slowing down last week, but this revelation paints a different picture.

Earlier this month, P🀅okemon developer Game Freak was the victim of a h🐎istoric hack as decades-old data was leaked online, giving us a peek behind the curtain at one of the most lucrative 🍸franchises in his✅tory.

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Leaks surfaced of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a cancelled WarioWare-style game and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an unannounced multiplayer project only yesterday, along with the revelation that the hac♕ker has the source code for Pokemon X/Y and Omega Ruby/𒀰Alpha Sapphire. Centro followed this up with a taunt aimed directly at Nintendo and The Pokemon Company following the copyright strikes against all uploaded images and videos from the leaks, saying "I think you have bigger problems at hand".

This jab came with two screenshots attached of Game Freak's GitLab. For context, GitLab houses all of the developer's projects, including the series' battle l♑ogic, research and development data, what appears to be a schedule for future games ("pokemon_production"), source code, and a whole lot more. Game Freak said that the hacker lost access in August, but how much they were able to download before then is still unknown.

What We Do Know - The Source Code Leaks

These screenshots lift the curtain on how catastrophic the hack really was. The leaker gained access to GameF🐠reak's internal development, whi♒ch means access to source code not just for old games, but unreleased ones too — a disaster for any developer.

We don't know the full severity of the breach yet, but Centro revealed that they have the source code for "the Switch games". It's unclear what exactly that means, whether it entails all Pokemon games on Switch or just the mainline entries, but we do know that they at least downloaded the source code for Let's Go and the most recent release, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Scarlet and Violet.

The hacker also gained access to older games such as Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, X/Y, HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Black and White 2. But this new post from Centro, with images provided directly by the hacker, teases that there might be more than we expected. Through Game Freak's GitLab, they were privy to 857 projects, 732 users, and 97 groups. That is a huge amount of data, so maybe things a🍌ren't slowing down nearly as much as we thought.