Nintendo offers $20,000 to those that can hack the Switch

12 Apr 2017

Steve Wright

Nintendo is offering hackers up to $20,000 USD to hack its latest console, the Switch.

This isn’t a new move by the publisher; they’ve offered hackers cash to hack their consoles for some time now. The idea is, the hackers find loopholes, report them to Nintendo, and Nintendo closes them.

The news of this latest bounty is via HackerOne, who reports that Nintendo is offering $100 to $20,000 USD to hack the Switch.

Time to get hacking?

The Switch hit store shelves in early March. We reviewed the console here.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.