Game Freak has released a statement and confirmed a hack of the Pokémon developer earlier this year.
In August 2024, an unauthorized third party gained access to the servers of Game Freak. The Pokémon developer, based out of Tokyo, confirmed that the prominent speculation about a hack is correct. Over the weekend, codenames and source code for Nintendo titles and hardware started to spill out onto the Internet, and the nature of this leak made it pretty obvious this wasn’t just Switch 2 speculation.
After Nintendo Everything picked up the news that source code for various Pokémon DS titles had made it out of game Freak’s servers, the torrent of information kept on flowing. So far social media has been awash with codenames for a raft of systems and games, from Gaia to Ounce, and Ikkaku. The TeraLeak documents also include a bunch of information on ongoing movies plans, such as Pokémon Movie 24 and possibly a Detective Pikachu sequel. There are also a whole lot of lore reports and supposed scripts detailed social platforms that we’ve yet to, and really would rather not, verify.
What we do now know for sure, is that the breach is the real deal. An official post on the game Freak website indicates that the hack got over 2500 employee names and company emails. It doesn’t specifically stated any other data was taken, or the method used to gain access, but this seems to indicate that Monday has been a hard day for the studio behind one of Nintendo’s biggest titles. You can read the official statement on the Game Freak website and prepare yourself for some, interesting information over on social media if you choose.
