On April 11, hacker group ShinyHunters claimed it had breached Rockstar Games and demanded a ransom from the developer. Following this, Rockstar Games issued an official statement confirming that the breach is real. In a statement provided to Insider Gaming, a spokesperson said that only a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed.
“We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach,” said the spokesperson. “This incident has no impact on our organization or our players.”
ShinyHunters claims it gained access to Rockstar Games via Anodot, a SaaS cloud cost-monitoring platform used by the studio, and is demanding that a ransom be paid by April 14 or the stolen data will be leaked to the public. The group has also added Rockstar Games to its dark web leak site. According to ShinyHunters, the breach exposed financial data, employee contracts, marketing timelines, and more. This is notably the second reported hack of Rockstar Games. In 2022, a hacker breached the studio and leaked over 90 videos of early development footage for Grand Theft Auto 6.
