2024 Game Freak Breach

The 2024 Game Freak Breach (also known as the "Freakleak", the "Teraleak" and the "Gigafreak") was a data breach of internal Game Freak files carried out by an anonymous user known as GameFreakOUT.

Screenshots of the attacker logged into an employee's account on the Nintendo Developer Portal show an announcement from July 31st 2024, meaning that the attackers had access to the internal servers and employee data in August 2024. It is rumored that 1 or more terabytes of internal files were exfiltrated, ranging from concept art, lore documents and semi-official fan-fictions written by Game Freak employees to full SVN source code repositories of Pokémon games.

Archives of what was exfiltrated are still being leaked to the public on the daily. Unlike the Zammis Clark Breach, where the data came into the hands of the public on 4chan, it was instead sent on a public Discord server, but the leaker later switched to sending the data in a private server.

Timeline of releases

October 2024 - Present

2024, October 12

The leaks first started with 2 images of the attacker being logged into a Game Freak employee's account on the Nintendo Developer Portal. The first one was the Account Info page, and the second was a list of products that Game Freak published for the Nintendo Switch line of systems.

Later that day, multiple archives were leaked, containing: the source code to Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (including version history), to Pokémon Bank, to Quinty (remake of the company's first game), to Pokémon Platinum, to Pokémon Black and White and to Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and also Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 builds.

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