Rockstar Games has revealed that the Grand Theft Auto VI developer was hacked by a third party.
As reported by TheCybersecGuru, a hacker group had claimed to utilised SaaS monitoring tool Anodot to breach the studio and had set an April 14 ransom deadline.
Rockstar Games. Your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 14 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that’ll come your way. Make the right decision. Don’t be the next headline. FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK.
Speaking during a statement to IGN, Rockstar confirmed that “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach. This incident has no impact on our organisation or our players.”
Rockstar Games was of course the subject of a high-profile hacking incident a few years ago, when a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire was arrested after leaking assets for the in-development Grand Theft Auto VI. Furthermore, the teenager was believed to be a member of the notorious hacking group Lapsus$, who at the time were being investigated by the FBI.
[Source – CybersecGuru via Eurogamer, IGN]