Rockstar Games recently suffered a data breach where a group of hackers known as ShinyHunters obtained a portion of the company's financial data. The group then attempted to extort the company for $200,000, but Rockstar refused to comply.
True to their word, ShinyHunters released the stolen information into the wild. As it turns out, there wasn't anything particularly interesting in there, unless you find the fact that PC players spend less money on GTA Online than even Xbox One players interesting, which I, of course, do.
All we really learned is that GTA Online still makes a lot of money — over $8 million a week, in fact. With this in mind, investors perhaps realised they should put some more money into Take-Two, which caused the stock's price to spike following the leak.
As spotted by Insider Gaming, Take-Two's stock price was trading at $201.99 as markets closed on April 13. When the markets opened the next morning, the stock price had jumped to $205.79, which equates to an additional $1 billion in value when you divide it out.
The irony here being that ShinyHunters actually made Take-Two $1 billion instead of robbing them of $200,000. Still, Take-Two's stock...
