Team Xecuter

Team Xecuter is a video game hacker group that makes mod chips and jailbreak devices. Among console hackers, who primarily consist of hobbyists testing boundaries and believe in the open-source model, Team Xecuter was controversial for selling hacking tools for profit. Console systems targeted by the group include the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, NES Classic Edition, Sony PlayStation, and the Microsoft Xbox. 
In September 2020, Gary "GaryOPA" Bowser and Max "MAXiMiLiEN" Louarn were arrested for designing and selling "circumvention devices", in particular, products to circumvent Nintendo Switch copy protection, and were named, along with Chinese citizen Yuanning Chen, in a federal indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, WA on August 20, 2020. Each of the three men named in the indictment are facing 11 felony counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices, trafficking in circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Bowser handled public relations for the group, which has been in operation since "at least" 2013. Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Bowser on April 16, 2021, to shut down Team Xecutor and seeking damages in the amount of $2500 per trafficked device, and $150,000 for each copyright violation. Nintendo had previously sued resellers of Team Xecuter chips.