The team fail0verflow just pushed a mysterious post on their blog titled ’8 days’ and as a content this series of numbers and letters :

27181eb3cc988732fc416563c6f21b4a34b88a05

According to a tweet from Marcan the 40 character hex string are SHA1 and not encryption keys … but we still don’t know if the checksum of an exploit, a vital part of the wiiu, the first bootloader etc….

About the ’8 days’ there is do possibility : first this can mean it took ‘only’ 8 days to hack the Wii U (it’s correspond with the EU release of the Wii U in Europe (30November)) or it can mean they will reveal the meaning of this in 8 days.
Anyway this mysterious post definitly mean the hack of the Wii U seriously started.

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