A year after the infamous “Teraleak,” another hacked data from the servers of Pokémon creator Game Freak has spread across the Internet – this time focusing on the upcoming game Pokémon Legends: ZA.
The content includes screenshots and gameplay videos that appear to show ongoing work in the Pokémon Legends: ZA beta, including various features, mechanics, and mini-games that fans believe are not in the final game.
The release of further data from Teraleak, just days before the official release of Pokémon Legends: ZA on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, is particularly eye-opening – it is suggested that hackers have held back these files since last year’s deluge of details until the (almost) release of the recent game in the series. It also suggests that Nintendo’s attempts to locate the hackers have not been successful – despite a legal challenge for the company to subpoena Discord to reveal the hackers’ identities in April this year.
Today’s release of hacked Pokémon Legends: ZA information follows several days of leaks from players with early copies – legal and otherwise – that have laid bare the recent game’s Pokédex, including a long list of fresh Mega Pokémon species. Last week, IGN warned that the spoiler floodgates had opened. As of today, fans believe they have compiled a list of all the Pokémon that will receive a Mega Evolution not only in the base game, but also in the post-launch DLC for Legends: ZA, which is now available for pre-order.
With the game’s biggest secrets now available online for those willing to find them, it looks like the hackers at Teraleak have decided it’s time to reveal what they had in Pokémon Legends: ZA – and it looks like they won’t be stopping there.
The Teraleak hackers did it Also have now begun posting information they believe pertains to the legendary upcoming “Gen 10” Pokémon games, which fans widely expect to release in 2026, ahead of the series’ 30th anniversary. However, as claims about the names and settings of these games continue to circulate, it’s worth noting that this information appears to be based on documentation from several years ago, rather than actual gameplay footage as is the case with Pokémon Legends: ZA.
In October 2024, Game Freak issued a statement confirming that the company had suffered a data breach in August of that year and noting that hackers had accessed the data of current and former employees. However, the company did not comment on the spread of game data downloaded from its servers after the hack. This included the source code of many Pokémon games, unused assets that revealed discarded Pokémon species, notes from internal meetings and PowerPoint presentations, and more.
The hack, dubbed Teraleak by Pokémon fans, revived memories of Nintendo’s infamous 2020 game “Gigaleak,” the largest leak of internal video game information ever published that revealed previously unknown canceled games, prototypes, source code, development tools and internal communications.
IGN has reached out to Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for comment.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s news editor. You can contact Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
