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The Switch 2 Has Been Jailbroken For The First Time

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The Switch 2 Has Been Jailbroken For The First Time

The ongoing fallout from yesterday’s PHP vulnerability and patching continues to dominate headlines, with AI credited for both discovering the serious 20-year-old flaw, and for exploiting it in the moments after the patch was released. Now, word is out that the Nintendo Switch 2 has been jailbroken just 16 months after its original launch, again thanks to AI.

WCCF Tech reports that the new exploit is based on a discovery made back in July, a so-called “userland exploit,” which allowed external code to be run within a specific app or game. That was a significant dent in Nintendo’s defenses, but not yet a way to allow piracy. However, this latest discovery takes things a stage further, with an in-software hack now allowing users to mod games, install homebrew (and therefore potentially pirated games), and download save files. Centro Leaks reposted a video clip from someone claiming to be a jailbreaker in which they show characters like Peter Griffin and Hatsune Miku modded into Mario Kart World.

BREAKING: SWITCH 2 HAS BEEN HACKED (BY AI!), FIRST JAILBREAK RELEASED https://t.co/DzTLzai44g

The individual responsible claims to have used OpenAI Codex to co-create the hack, and says it took “substantial effort” for around two weeks to achieve, using a setup that looks like a Rube Goldberg device. The method requires running a specific backward-compatible Switch 1 game in order to take advantage of the previous exploit, and this needs to be done every time the Switch 2 is launched. Which is to say, it’s still a ways off from being a commonplace way in which people will jailbreak their Switches for piracy.


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