Nintendo is working to beef up its security and IT training following recent reports of major announcements being scraped from YouTube’s backend ahead of major Directs. The acknowledgement of efforts to curb internal information from being exposed by outside actors comes as the video game industry leaker scene gets swallowed up in weird drama . During its annual shareholder meeting Thursday, Nintendo was asked about recent reports by 404 Media and others on data security issues at Google, according to remarks transcribed by Twitter user NStyles and translated by VGC .
The reported incidents included mentions of an employee gaining access to the trailer for Yoshi’s Crafted World from YouTube’s backend before the game was officially announced for Switch. A separate report by Insider Gaming noted other incidents and corroborated that lots of big gaming leaks come from data uploaded early to YouTube’s backend and accessed by contractors. According to VGC, Nintendo acknowledged the reports and said the company was using outside security firms, new security system measures, and employee training to address the issues around leaks.
It doesn’t sound like the Switch manufacturer went into specifics about how it’s plugging leaks, but fans have been speculating about the steps Nintendo is taking since the implosion of a popular online gaming leaker last week. The leaker, who went by Pyoro, was one of the last remaining leakers who seemed to at least occasionally have solid s.
