Ryan Hernandez, 21, who was arrested for stealing “stolen information, including pre-release information about the expected Nintendo Switch console,” was sentenced to three years in prison.
In 2016 Hernandez and a friend managed to obtain credentials from a Nintendo employee that they could then use to “Access and download confidential Nintendo files related to their consoles and games”.. He was first caught in 2017, but when his house was searched in 2019 to look for more information about violations, the FBI found storage drives that contained not only “thousands of confidential Nintendo files” but “more than a thousand Videos and pictures of minors who behave sexually explicitly are stored and sorted in a folder directory that he calls “Bad Stuff”.
His sentence takes into account both offenses, both of which are federal crimes. Hernandez pleaded guilty in January but his conviction was only announced today. He is sent to a “facility for inmates with cognitive problems” and has to pay Nintendo US $ 259,323 “for the restoration costs caused by his behavior.”
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