that Spanish authorities arrested a man who allegedly hacked into Nintendo's (or some third party data storage company's) records to steal data on 4,000 gamers. The story says that the man tried to blackmail Nintendo by accusing the firm of negligence in data protection. When Nintendo didn't respond to the threats, the man leaked the stolen data online.

We live in an age where data is more exposed than ever, but the laws protecting that data are pretty cut and dried. It's not newsworthy to use that the guy got himself arrested -- only that he thought he could get away with what he was doing. Seriously, this is Nintendo. Do you know to hackers and pirates?

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