Rockstar Games has reportedly been hit by another cybersecurity incident, with a notorious hacker group claiming to have breached a third-party platform the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer uses to monitor cloud service usage. Rockstar is now said to be facing a tight deadline to pay a ransom before the attackers release the stolen data. If confirmed, the incident would mark the company's second major security breach since GTA 6 entered development.
The group that claimed responsibility for the attack is ShinyHunters, a black-hat hacking collective named after shiny Pokemon collecting that has been active since early 2020. Over the following six years, ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for dozens of successful attacks on high-profile targets, including Google, AT&T, Ticketmaster, Mashable, GitHub, and several universities, ranging from Harvard to Princeton.
An ex-Rockstar developer who worked on Grand Theft Auto 5 speculates on why the next installment in the series, GTA 6, has taken so long to develop.
In a recent update to its leak site on the dark web, ShinyHunters claimed to have breached Rockstar's Snowflake environment, a cloud data platform. The group said it exfiltrated large amounts of corporate data (i.e., likely nothing related to end-user accounts)...
