Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games has been targeted by hackers again. A group called ShinyHunters claims it broke into servers run by the third-party cloud provider Anodot. ShinyHunters said the stolen data would be published online as their demands had not been met.
Rockstar confirmed the hack in a statement to Kotaku, but said the breach was not serious and it has confirmed that it will not pay the ransom. A spokesperson explained, "We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach."
The hacker group announced on April 11 that it accessed the data through Anodot (according to Cybersec Guru and Hackread). Hackers often target these third-party service providers, but ShinyHunters has not yet said what kind of data it took. After news of the hack, Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company, saw its share price drop by more than 6% in pre-market trading. The stock price did rebound afterward to its usual levels.
A later report from Kotaku said that files had begun appearing on the dark web. It appears they are mostly related to users' spending habits rather than material about upcoming games like GTA 6.
Rockstar Games had beefed up its internal security following previous attacks, and it recently fired 30+ staffers in the UK and abroad, claiming that they had discussed "confidential information" in a public forum.
The layoffs have been heavily criticized, with the fired staffers claiming that they were being punished for wanting to establish a union.
In 2022, a UK teenager leaked gigabytes of early GTA 6 gameplay after getting into the company's internal Slack chats. The hacker, who was part of a gang called Lapsus$, was eventually caught and received a life sentence in a prison hospital.
GTA 6 will be released on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Reports claim that the game's online mode will not be available at launch.
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