GTA 6 Dev Rockstar Confirms 'A Limited Amount of Non-Material Company Information Was Accessed' in Third-Party Data Breach, as Hackers Issue Ultimatum: 'Pay or Leak'

Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games has confirmed institution accusation was accessed arsenic portion of a third-party information breach, aft reports emerged this play that it had been hacked.

In a connection issued to IGN, a Rockstar Games spokesperson insisted “a constricted magnitude of non-material institution accusation was accessed,” and stressed the incidental “has nary interaction connected our enactment oregon our players.”

Rockstar's connection successful afloat follows:

"We tin corroborate that a constricted magnitude of non-material institution accusation was accessed successful transportation with a third-party information breach. This incidental has nary interaction connected our enactment oregon our players."

This morning, The CyberSec Guru reported that a hacker radical called ShinyHunters had utilized AI analytics level Anodot, a SaaS cloud-cost monitoring instrumentality Rockstar uses, to breach Rockstar’s Snowflake information warehouse, posing arsenic a morganatic interior service. ShinyHunters has acceptable a ransom deadline of April 14, demanding Rockstar pay, oregon the radical volition merchandise the data.

The hackers allegedly did not ace Snowflake’s encryption, alternatively accessed Anodot’s strategy to get authentication tokens, which it past utilized arsenic a integer walk cardinal to participate Rockstar’s Snowflake instance. "if you springiness a instrumentality similar Anodot wide work permissions connected your Snowflake warehouse and that instrumentality gets compromised, the information is gone," The CyberSec Guru said. "Snowflake isn’t the anemic nexus here; the integration argumentation is."

ShinyHunters' connection successful afloat follows:

Rockstar GamesYour Snowflake instances were compromised acknowledgment to Anodot.com. Pay oregon leak.This is simply a last informing to scope retired by 14 Apr 2026 earlier we leak on with respective annoying (digital) problems that'll travel your way. Make the close decision. Don't beryllium the adjacent headline.FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK.

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The question present is, precisely what institution accusation was stolen? Rockstar's connection downplays the leak, insisting the accusation is "non-material," and that players and the company's plans are unaffected. That suggests Rockstar isn't bracing itself for a damaging GTA 6 leak fractional a twelvemonth earlier the crippled is owed to launch, nor does it judge its aboriginal plans volition beryllium spoiled.

Rockstar has suffered a fig of damaging leaks successful the past. In 2022, much than 90 videos and images from an aboriginal mentation of GTA 6 were leaked online by hackers successful what was 1 of gaming's biggest information breaches. "We instrumentality leaks precise earnestly so and they disappoint each of us, it's truly frustrating and upsetting to the team," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said successful response.

Then, successful December 2023, the archetypal GTA 6 trailer leaked connected X/Twitter little than 24 hours earlier its scheduled premiere, starring to Rockstar officially posting the trailer connected YouTube early. Rockstar developers took to societal media to explicit their vexation astatine the leak, which Zelnick aboriginal called "disappointing." "In presumption of the leak, that's ever disappointing for the team, but ultimately, I don't deliberation it wounded us," helium said.

GTA 6 is owed retired connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S connected November 19, 2026.

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