In December last year, Nintendo released a remaster update for its outdated 3DS messaging app Swapnote.
He had a lot of fans wondering what was really going on at the time, because he didn’t look like a remaster at all. The Nintendo patch notes provided with this software update stated that they “fixed some issues” but did not work out as usual.
It seems that the story goes a little deeper, the data miner “OatmealDome” conveys how the note-sharing service actually had a vulnerability in the message analyzer that could be exploited through StreetPass – in turn allowing an “attacker” to run any desired code.
The individual behind this discovery ‘mrnbayohreceived $ 1,682 from Nintendo (via HackerOne) as a reward. So here it is – this “probably” explains why Nintendo released an update years after disabling the main function of the application.
In case you didn’t remember, this free service was actually discontinued in 2013, when Nintendo found out that users were exchanging offensive materials. Then it turned off online functionality, limiting it to local wireless.