Pokémon Go Developer Niantic To Receive $5 Million Settlement From Hacker Group

In 2019, Pokémon Go developer Niantic, Inc. filed a lawsuit against hacking group Global++ for the selling of hacked and/or modified versions of Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and Ingress. The San Francisco-based developer Niantic alleges that these apps used original code without permission, gave unfair advantages to those who used the modified apps, and that Global++ profited by selling "hundreds of thousands of subscriptions." The hacked versions of Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wiza...