GOOGLE has a strict database that covers all security breaches and the internal investigations into them.
A recent report on the internal Google database has apparently uncovered the truth of five years of Nintendo leaks.
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Google owns YouTube, and a number of companies upload videos to YouTube before their official release to make sure they are ready on time.
These videos remain unlisted until the release time and are uploaded in advance as, depending on the length of the video, they can take a long time to upload.
While the general public cannot access these videos, some employees from Google are able to watch and check the video.
This isn’t done for all videos but can be done to ensure the video abides by YouTube’s guidelines, usually if the video is flagged for rule breaking content.
The database was seen by 404 Media, which says that it saw these reports thanks to an anonymous source.
Google has verified the contents of the internal reports and states that the privacy breaches were resolved at the time they occurred.
However, the report shows that Nintendo’s unlisted videos were apparently watched by an employee and their contents leaked for five years.
Due to the long timeline of these events it appears that the breach wasn’t reported to Google for a number of years.
Private Nintendo videos were allegedly viewed between 2013 and 2018 by a Google employee, and the contents of these videos were apparently leaked online.
The report does not detail which videos were affected, or what information was released, only that the activity was “non-intentional”.
It is not detailed how the breach occurred unintentionally, or what happened to the employee following the breach.
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