If legal action is pursued, the "teraleaker" may not face consequences quite that severe: They didn't sell anything, after all. But as Polygon reported in 2021, an earlier Pokémon leak did result in a lawsuit, filed in that case by the Pokémon Company, which left the two leakers involved owing the company $150,000 each. Given the much larger scale of the "teraleak," I'll be very surprised indeed if Nintendo doesn't come down hard on whoever pulled it off.