Nintendo Demands Discord Uncover Person Behind Pokémon Data Breach

Nintendo filed a request to the California court to compel Discord to reveal the identity of the individual responsible for 2024’s major Pokémon data leak, referred to within the Pokémon community as the Teraleak due to its massive size.

Back in 2024, the leaker claimed to possess the source code for the upcoming Nintendo’s exclusive Pokémon Legends: Z-A (though it was never released), along with early builds of older titles, next-generation Pokémon projects, extensive concept art, and internal lore documents.

Nintendo submitted a subpoena request (revealed by Polygon) on April 18, 2025, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, according to documents obtained by Polygon, aiming to get the leaker’s name, address, phone number, and email address.

Nintendo alleged in a declaration accompanying the subpoena request that a Discord user named GameFreakOUT posted the “confidential materials not released to the public” to a Discord server called FreakLeak.

The subpoena seeks “to obtain the identity of the Discord user ‘GameFreakOUT,’ who posted infringing content,” wrote James D. Berkley, an attorney representing Nintendo. In support of the request, Nintendo submitted a partially redacted screenshot from the Discord server, showing GameFreakOUT uploading a file and encouraging others to “enjoy.”

The Pokémon leaks surfaced around Oct. 12, 2024. Two days earlier, on Oct. 10, 2024, Game Freak, a Japanese video game developer best known as the primary developer and co-owner of the Pokémon series, issued a statement disclosing it had been hacked. In the announcement, the company acknowledged that the breach affected employee data but did not confirm whether any confidential game-related information had been compromised.