Rockstar Games Says Hack Will Have ‘no Impact’

Rockstar confirmed connected Saturday that immoderate of its information was compromised successful a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained entree to nan company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting supplier celebrated pinch endeavor customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April 14th, aliases it will leak nan information it has stolen.

In a connection provided to Kotaku, nan institution said that nan compromised information was constricted successful scope and “this incident has nary effect connected our statement aliases our players.”

It’s unclear precisely which information was compromised, but it appears nan hack targeted firm data alternatively than subordinate information. It’s imaginable that financial records, trading data, aliases contracts pinch companies for illustration Sony and Microsoft could beryllium included successful nan haul.

This isn’t nan first clip Rockstar has been nan unfortunate of a high-profile hack. In 2022, a huge cache of videos from GTA VI were leaked online by Lapsus$.