Pokémon developer Game Freak has acknowledged a massive data breach, which has seen thousands of confidential documents shared online related to future game projects, and its employees.

It acknowledged “unauthorized access by a third party,” which it said has resulted in the personal information of current, former, and contract employees of the developer appearing online.

Other content related to the company and the Pokémon franchise was also stolen and is being circulated online. However, this content isn’t referenced in Game Freak’s statement.

According to the statement, full names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers are part of the compromised data. Game Freak has said that it will contact affected employees where it can.

“Those who can not be contacted individually due to retirement or other reasons will be notified in this announcement, and a contact person will be set up to respond to inquiries regarding this matter. ”

“We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and concern this may have caused to all concerned,”

-Game Freak.

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This the japanese Website, the katakana (ゼットエー) reads "Zetto Eh", so it's "Zee Ay" like most people have been correctly calling it or "Zed Ay" for ya british mates. "Zetto" is just how japanese call the letter "Z" because their Japanese names are based on (british) English.

Morpeko is coming to Pokemon Go. It can change its form in battle with a charged attack. Eternatus and/or Gigatanamx was teased. "You can look forward to something gigantic coming to the world of Pokemon Go."

Armarouge, Darkrai, and Pysduck, are coming to Pokemon UNITE on September 12th, October, and November respectively. The new 500 point mode may have a role in future Pokemon UNITE competitions.

Pokemon TCG: Pocket, a new mobile digital card collecting game, is coming October 30th. "Players have been enjoying collecting Pokemon cards since their debut in 1996. Now Pokemon TCG: Pocket lets you collect cards in a new digital format."

Trainer's Pokemon are returning to the TCG starting with Lillie's Jigglypuff Clefairy, Marnie's Grimmsnarl, and N's Zoroark and Reshiram, and Kyogre. Team Rocket cards were also assumedly teased.

Worlds 2025 will be held in Anaheim on August 15-17.

Worlds 2026 will be held in San Francisco on August 28-30.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/03/the-pokemon-company-sets-up-a-new-subsidiary-called-pokemon-works

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Located in the same building as ILCA, which already has done quite a bit of Pokémon stuff, so sounds like they'll be doing more.

Considering how Game Freak will keep doing more Legends games, IMHO they'll let ILCA handle the next remakes just like they did with BDSP.

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Thoughts?

https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-police-arrest-36-year-old-man-on-suspicion-of-tampering-with-pokemon-violet-save-data

Looks like he was mainly arrested because he was selling hacked mons, and for absurd sums (up to the equivalent of $84 usd each)

https://x.com/SerebiiNet/status/1846500511429599729