New Delhi, June 15 -- TOKYO - The surveys were supposed to be anonymous. Every few weeks, Nintendo employees across the company would log into TINYpulse, a workplace engagement platform used by their HR department, and answer questions about how they were feeling at work - candid responses about management, morale, and internal culture. Those submissions, stretching back as far as 2016, may now be in the hands of a criminal extortion group threatening to dump them publicly unless someone pays $2 million.

A threat actor calling itself SHADOWBYT3$ posted a claim on a cybercrime forum on June 12 and 13, 2026, alleging the theft of approximately 859MB of data linked to Nintendo - not from the Japanese gaming company's core systems, but from ...