A Mystery Involving Hardware Security Modules and Value Tokens

Context Historical context In July, 2021, the phenomenon known as the &ldquo;Gigaleak&rdquo; continued. The Gigaleak was a drip-feed of part of the ill-gotten data from the 2018 Nintendo data breach . On July 20, 2021, the iqcvs.tar.xz file was uploaded to the now-defunct file sharing website anonfiles.com and thereby made available to the public by The Hacker Known as 4chan. This file contains a…