Tue, Feb 15, 2011 | 11:04 GMT
Report – Nintendo blackmailed by Spanish citizen, gets arrested
According to a BBC report, a man has been arrested by Spanish police after it was uncovered that he was blackmailing Nintendo with 4,000 stolen Wii data files.
The suspect, who remains unnamed, blackmailed the company by threatening to show the data to the country’s data protection agency and have Nintendo done for negligence. It’s unknown what he wanted.
The suspect started leaking details onto the internet after Nintendo ignored his threat, but police in Malaga got involved in the nick of time after it was claimed all of the data would end up on the internet.
Nintendo couldn’t comment on an active legal case. It’s not known if the data leak came from Nintendo itself or if it was a third-party.
9 comments
#1
Toastrules
15/02/11, 11:25 am
Now the question is what kind of files were they…
#2
The_Red
15/02/11, 11:56 am
I hope that idiot has sent a back-up to a friend or something so in case of him getting arrested, they can release the files for all to see.
#3
Old MacDonald
15/02/11, 12:48 pm
Why did Nintendo get arrested?
#4
Jorge
15/02/11, 1:16 pm
As far as I know, he actually hacked the database of http://www.pruebayveras.com/ which is the spanish website for the 3DS tryout country tour, so he allegedly has the National ID cards numbers, names, surnames, emails and passwords of every person that registered to try out the 3DS. That’s relevant.
I know since I’m from Málaga too and it striked me.
#5
Canalla
15/02/11, 1:26 pm
As far as I know, the guy didn’t ‘hack’ the database, he just found that when he pressed ‘enter’ on the admin login screen of the page http://www.pruebayveras.com/, he could access the page without any problems. He send mails to the people of nintendo saying that the registered people data was compromised because a great system security error from them, and Nintendo said that they where blackmailed and hacked… which is not the case.
For those who understand spanish, here is the link for a more complete news: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/02/10/navegante/1297331224.html
Also, he reported nintendo to a Spain agency of personal data to protection to report the lackof security from Nintendo
#6
Jorge
15/02/11, 2:59 pm
Change “hacked” for “accessed the information”. Sorry for misspelling, then!
#7
tmac2011
15/02/11, 3:00 pm
@ old mcdonald te spanish guy got arrested not nintendo lmao
#8
OlderGamer
15/02/11, 3:01 pm
@7
I am betting that was his point
#9
xxJPRACERxx
15/02/11, 4:33 pm
@5 If waht you say is true then Nintendo look really bad in the story.