Japanese man arrested for allegedly hacking Pokémon game to sell custom monsters

/ The 36-year-old is accused of illegally tampering with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s save data and violating a Japanese corporate espionage law.

By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade.

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Japanese police arrested a man after finding evidence that he illegally tampered with save data for the Nintendo Switch games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which he used to create custom characters that he sold on an online gaming marketplace.

According to machine translations of stories at NHK and the Asahi Shimbun, the Kochi Prefectural

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