One of the ways of amassing huge social followers is to become a ‘leaker’. One prominent Nintendo leaker, Pyoro, was notorious for making accurate Nintendo Direct leaks that helped their X account swell to over one hundred thousand followers. However, they seem to have run into trouble after an open confession.
Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier recently reached out to Pyoro on the source of their leaks. According to Schreier, they told him that their source works for Nintendo in Japan, but wasn’t sure how they obtained their information.
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Trouble started when the Nintendo leaker was uncharacteristically quiet prior to the June Nintendo Direct. In fact, Pyoro said they didn’t expect any big announcement from Nintendo. However, they were wrong—apparently for the first time—after the Japanese game publisher paraded a solid lineup of new games including Mario & Luigi and Metroid.
People started asking questions after Pyoro’s wrong prediction, especially on Resetera. Eventually, people discovered that the June Nintendo Direct did not have pre-seeded webpages (which usually go live after or during the livestream) on Nintendo’s store, unlike the previous announcements.
The Nintendo leaker usually never talks about games that were added to the company’s website long after the livestream. That was when it dawned on many that the leaker was someone who had access to Nintendo’s backend.
Although Pyoro confirmed that their source works with Nintendo in Japan, they could not verify how they got their information. However, when confronted with the backend access claim by Schreier, they said the “backend theory is a reasonable guess”.
Nintendo leaker claimed they didn’t know their response would be made public
After the Bloomberg post was published, Pyoro claimed that they didn’t know that their response will be made public. However, to counter that claim, Schreier shared a screenshot of the message he had sent to their inbox which clearly mentioned that the interview was for an upcoming publication.
“Got it,” read the screenshot shared by Schreier. “Thanks for getting back to me. I’m working on a story about rumors and insiders (including you and the web backend theory) so please do let me know if there’s any other context I should know about.”
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Perhaps, the Nintendo leaker did not see the message sent by Schreier afterward until the publication or did not anticipate that they would be quoted in the publication. Another argument may be that Pyoro didn’t understand what Schreier meant by “context”.
Since the publication of the Bloomberg report, Pyoro has made their account private, removed their profile picture, and seems to be going through a post-deleting spree in their timeline history. Even their post claiming they didn’t expect a big announcement from Nintendo Direct has been deleted.
Another Nintendo leaker information surfaced earlier this month
Unlike Pyoro’s source who is believed to have access to Nintendo’s backend, the Nintendo leaker information that surfaced earlier this month was a Google employee who accessed private videos from the Nintendo’s YouTube account, according to 404 Media.
404 Media obtained an internal Google database that tracks thousands of potential privacy and security breaches reported by employees from 2013 to 2018. In one of the cases, it mentioned that a Google employee accessed private videos on Nintendo’s YouTube account and leaked the information ahead of the company’s planned announcements.
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“At Google, employees can quickly flag potential product issues for review by the relevant teams,” the company said in a statement to 404 Media. “When an employee submits the flag they suggest the priority level to the reviewer.”
“The reports obtained by 404 are from over six years ago and are examples of these flags—everyone was reviewed and resolved at that time. In some cases, these employee flags turned out not to be issues at all or were issues that employees found in third party services.”
