American online game writer Rockstar Video games on Monday revealed it was a sufferer of a “community intrusion” that allowed an unauthorized get together to illegally obtain early footage for the Grand Theft Auto VI.
“Right now, we don’t anticipate any disruption to our reside sport companies nor any long-term impact on the event of our ongoing initiatives,” the corporate mentioned in a discover shared on its social media handles.
The corporate mentioned that the third-party accessed “confidential info from our techniques,” though it isn’t instantly clear if it concerned another information past the sport footage.
The trove of knowledge, comprises some 90 movies of clips from the sport, leaked over the weekend on GTAForums by a consumer with an alias “teapotuberhacker,” hinting that the get together can be the identical individual chargeable for the current Uber breach.
The Uber hacker, who’s going by the identify Tea Pot, is believed to be an 18-year-old teenager. No different particulars are identified but.
“These movies had been downloaded from Slack,” teapotuberhacker mentioned in one of many discussion board messages. This additionally possible implies that the menace actor resorted to the identical approach multi-factor authentication (MFA) bombing to get previous additional account safety layers.
The hacker’s final purpose seems to be to “negotiate a deal” with the corporate. “I’ll leak extra if Rockstar/Take2 would not pay me,” the leaker posted in a message on 4chan.
