{"id":103162,"date":"2019-11-05T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/rumour_nintendo_may_have_caught_the_pokemon_sword_and_shield_leaker"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:15:00","slug":"rumour-nintendo-may-have-caught-the-pokemon-sword-and-shield-leaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/rumour-nintendo-may-have-caught-the-pokemon-sword-and-shield-leaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Nintendo May Have Caught The Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Leaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/358437a38df04\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/358437a38df04\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pokemon Sword Shield\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/358437a38df04\/pokemon-sword-shield.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/358437a38df04\/pokemon-sword-shield.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Sword Shield\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_are_leaking_like_a_sieve_be_safe_out_there\">leak<\/a> of information relating to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield<\/a><\/strong> certainly wasn&#8217;t part of Nintendo&#8217;s grand scheme for promoting the game, but if a recent rumour is to be believed, the company has tracked down the individual responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes from Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KGPrestige\">KGPrestige<\/a>, who claims that Nintendo employees have tracked down the leaker because of the profile picture they used on a Discord chat. This profile image was <em>also<\/em> used on the individual&#8217;s YouTube channel, which allowed Nintendo to then reach the person&#8217;s Facebook account, which was linked to the YouTube channel. As we all know, Facebook is big on people using their real-world names, and this is (apparently) how Nintendo bagged the culprit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LMAO, FROM A SINGLE PROFILE PIC, THEY NOT ONLY FOUND THE CULPRIT, BUT THE DUDE&#8217;S CHANNEL WHICH CONNECTED TO A FACEBOOK THING WHICH SHOWED HIS REAL PROFILE IDENTITY, WHICH REVEALED EVERYTHING. IF THAT ISN&#8217;T A CHAIN REACTION OF INSANITY. IDK WHAT IS.<\/span>\u2014 \u30b1\u30d3\u30d5\u30a3\u30f3 \/ K e v f i n (@KGPrestige) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KGPrestige\/status\/1191157684986425345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Is this story true? Well, it&#8217;s certainly possible that the person involved was foolish enough to post on Discord without properly masking their identity, and we would imagine that Nintendo would be <em>very<\/em> interested to learn where they got their copy of the game from.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep an eye on this story and update it if any other information comes to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent leak of information relating to Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield certainly wasn&#8217;t part of Nintendo&#8217;s grand scheme for promoting the game, but if a recent rumour is to be believed, the company has tracked down the individual responsible. The report comes from Twitter user KGPrestige, who claims that Nintendo employees have tracked down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}