Ryan Hernandez, 21 years old pleaded guilty last week in lawsuits related to the 2016 theft of "Nintendo's secret files related to development and games". When her home was raided by the FBI last year, they found “more than a thousand videos and pictures of children involved in sexual misconduct.”
Hernandez was first arrested in 2017, after he and a friend were holding "Nintendo" employees' certificates, citing as per the report of the United States Attorney's Office
The FBI turned to Hernandez's house in October 2017, and in the presence of supporters and his parents "promised to stop any brutal activity and make sure he understood the consequences of the looting".
A year after his return, he "got in on many Nintendo servers and stole private information about the most popular video games, game consoles and developer tools". Hernandez was boasting publicly now on platforms such as Twitter, and used Discord called "Ryan & # 39; s Underground Hangout" where he "and others discussed Nintendo products and shared details of Nintendo's network weaknesses, where he shared some of the confidential information he stole. ”.
This led to a June 2019 raid on Hernandez's home, where the FBI not only obtained storage containing "thousands of Nintendo secret files" and hardware used for gaming, but also evidence that he had a large collection of child pornography "sorted by a folder directory" 39; Stuff Bad. & # 39; ”
Because Hernandez acknowledges Nintendo-related child pornography charges – both union charges – the prosecutor and his defense attorney advise him to spend three years in prison. However, he can serve up to 25 years if a judge deems it appropriate, because of the high prevalence of child pornography.
He has agreed to pay $ 259,323 to Nintendo, and will now have to register as a sex offender.