Last month, Pokémon developer Game Freak confirmed a third-party gained unauthorised access to a company server earlier this year - leaking personal information and reportedly all sorts of details about past and present projects.
Now that the damage has been done, the leakers have shared an update suggesting the 'TeraLeak' is over (for now), and for their own "safety" they're seemingly going into hiding. According to one anonymous leaker via Discord (as highlighted by @pory_leeks), remaining online would "not be smart" at this point.
As noted by GamesRadar+, there's been no mention about what exactly has caused this sudden change, but it's likely concerns about potential legal action from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The anonymous leaker went on to mention how they don't care about "fame" or "money", and it seems messages sent on Discord focused on these leaks are "starting to get deleted", with one individual's account set to be entirely wiped.
Although this might seem like the end, it's apparently not - with the leakers planning to share "all data promised" at a later date. They are just not entirely sure where they'll leak this data, but apparently they still have ways of "validating the source of those leaks".
You can read more about this leak in our original story. The leak included source code for multiple Pokémon titles, codenames for future generations of Pokémon and much more. In Game Freak's official statement, the Japanese developer formally apologised for the inconvenience and concern caused to all involved.
If we hear any significant developments, we'll let you know.
[source x.com, via gamesradar.com]
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Those leaks better not include private info on the devs.
Art leaks and decomplications are useful to know and piece together a game's development history, but nobody should have their privacy breached like that.
@Samalik Agreed, I also do like looking at concept art and scrapped ideas for games, but I am absolutely against the types of leaks that include private info on developers and making them available to the public eye.
In fact, I am against a lot of game leaks in general, since most leakers (not all, I should clarify) don’t have a lot of reasons for leaking besides gaining internet fame and clout, and after hearing about that terrible Insomniac Games leak last year, I realized how malicious some leaks can be, especially being a person who favors protecting privacy and is anxious about it happening a whole lot.
@Samalik I guess I wouldn’t like private info on devs (I’m a developer myself), but I’ve never seen such a leak about developers (or at least I’ve been avoiding it for ever since 😅). I really like peeks at history, of what could have been implemented into past games, and concept art, of course, just like everyone else. But I always feel a bit guilty, because it’s not easy for developers to keep the information hidden, even worse when someone’s deliberately trying to steal information.
Leakers are only getting more crafty, hmm this doesn't bode well
They’ve already caused a lot of emotional distress to many employees. Inexcusable behavior. I hope they get caught and face the consequences of their actions.
Awwww, I wanted the source code of their games leaked. I'm really dying to see how poorly optimized it is considering their previous game.
We have brave whistleblowers exposing treason/corruption on one end and on the other we have impatient losers trying to get dirt on Pokémon games. 🤦🏻♂️
Imagine going into hiding over a Pokémon leak. 😅
The dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Super Effective Unit...
These are their stories...
Same as others here, while it's far from ideal how we got them the art leaks, decompilations etc. are great historically (decompilations I can see why they wouldn't, but I wish companies officially released more of these things themselves in general), but the doxing is inexcusable and even more so since these leakers had the data for a while so they could've and should've removed/obscured the personal information... fingers crossed the data they'll leak later will exclusively contain the former and not the latter - my guess is that it's the actual data of currently unreleased games, Z-A and Gen 10!
Leakers actually ruin big announcements for me. I prefer to just wait and see what the developer has to say.
What’s worse is when websites put leaks and rumours in headlines and then that ruins the surprise.
I rarely watch movie trailers nowadays because they give too much info and can ruin parts of the movie.
I might be an exception, but please. Not everyone likes or wants leaks.
@Pigeon Developers had their personal information leaked online as part of this breach. As a result, they allegedly faced harassment and even threats.
Hate leaks ruins everything for everybody. It like wanting the future now. You wouldn't want to know when you're time up. I wouldn't why would you want to know the the future of what games or kit in development. Nothing to look forward to. And website distributing info on leakers are adding to the fire so perhaps that would be a good place to not add more wood.
Hope this scum gets caught and gets what they deserve.
Sad to see people in here talking as if the ends justify the means. Oh well, I guess the crime is already done, so sure I'll delight in the spoils.
I'll remain steadfast in my refusal to give these criminals any clicks for their ill-gotten gains.
While it was entertaining at first, to say the least, I'm certainly over with any more news from the "Freak Leak".
I don't really care either way about Pokemon info but leakers are attention seeking scum that deserve to be litigated into dust.
@Pastellioli weird that SOME leaked info is OK but not the rest... you don't have a right to any of it.
@timschel I did not say that I had a right to any of the leaks or say that some info is okay and more acceptable than other info. I don’t know much of what leaked besides the fact that some concept artwork was shown since I didn’t read the leak at all. When leaks like this happen, I do not bother reading the contents or learning more about it, especially if the leak is said to contain private information on developers and is a threat and breach to their life and privacy.
I should have added this in my other comment, but I wished that the art concepts weren’t released in this malicious way by some random people that caused stress and worry to the developers. The people who leaked all this info are super scummy, especially how they apparently are “going into hiding” to avoid the consequences.
These leakers are bitter losers and cowards.
@splatoonaddict This leak started with them outing exactly which employee they phished to get it and a ton of their personal information because they didn't bother blocking it out in screenshots.
@link3710 Geez, that is REALLY BAD. I really hope the people who leaked this get caught and face the consequences. I don’t get what these people get out of leaking others personal information online and causing them distress.
With Nintendo's crazy lawyers they'd probably want the guy charged the same as the young guy who leaked classified military documents about the Russia/Ukraine conflict on discord lol.
Hope Nintendo/Pokemon Co. sues.
@8bit-Man come to think of it, the only good thing about leaks is that lawyers got a job to do. Or they have an extra headache…
Maybe The Pokémon Company should “leak” a Legends Z-A gameplay teaser. It’s been almost 9 months. Just a little scrap of something. I didn’t keep up with these leaks at all, but I’m definitely starved for official information. 👀
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