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Nintendo leak reportedly came from an employee accessing private YouTube videos, but Google says it was

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Nintendo leak reportedly came from an employee accessing private YouTube videos, but Google says it was

A new report on old privacy incidents suggests that at least one Nintendo leak came from a Google employee showing off private YouTube videos to a friend.

The leak in question dates back to 2017, when images of a trailer for the then-untitled Yoshi’s Crafted World hit Reddit shortly before the game’s official reveal. In the comments, the poster of that thread said “My friend work at google and he send this photo to me. It’s a video that it’s already in Nintendo channel and is going to be in public after the reveal.” The image included an ‘admin.youtube.com’ URL, which certainly suggested that this particular call was coming from inside the house.

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