One day we’ll be playing your game, appreciating your craft, and the leaks will be relegated to a footnote on a Wikipedia page. Neil Druckman, co-president of Naughty Dog (the company that made The Last of Us ) expressed his support for Rockstar on Twitter, writing: "To my fellow devs out there affected by the latest leak, know that while it feels overwhelming right now, it’ll pass. Just this past August, entire scenes from The Last of Us Part 1remake somehow made their way onto YouTube, where fans picked apart various aspects of the game before it could properly be announced. Leaks of unreleased footage from games still in development have not been new to the video game industry, but blackmail over source code is a very serious matter.
Pac-Man is Back, Baby-And He's Going to Eat You.Help Me, I'm Fully Addicted to 'Splatoon 3'.Depending on how much was stolen, such a leak could even hurt future sales of GTA VI and accidentally reveal trade secrets from the game developers. With the source code, anyone could produce a pirated and even modified version of certain aspects of the game. Regardless, the same phishing method could be at play with the Rockstar breach.Īlong with leaking videos, the hacker is also reportedly blackmailing Rockstar Games over GTA V and GTA VI's source code, which contains all of the information needed to run the game. Many Uber employees, who must have thought it was a joke, oddly responded with various emojis unbefitting of someone who just found out that private information of theirs had just been stolen on the Internet. "Hi I announce i am a hacker and uber has suffered a data breach," the alleged hacker wrote on their company's Slack.
They reportedly spammed them with multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications until they let them into their internal systems, where they were able to browse the source code. Allegedly, they got into the ride-sharing company's Slack by tricking an employee into granting them access. The hacker claimed responsibility for a similar security breach to the ride-sharing company Uber just a week prior. So how did the hacker do it? Well, we might have a hint. We will update everyone again soon, and, of course, will properly introduce you to this game when it is ready." "Our work on the next Grand Theft Auto game will continue as planned and we remain as committed as ever to delivering an experience for you, our players, that truly exceeds your expectations. "We are extremely disappointed to have the details of our next game shared with you all in this way," Rockstar Games said in an official statement on Monday. To put it in perspective with another media giant, it would be like if no one even knew that James Cameron was working on a sequel to Avatar and footage from Avatar: The Way of the Waterleaked onto the Internet. That's all to say, that when GTA VI was going to be announced for real, it was going to be a historic moment. GTA V was once the best-selling video game of all time, until Minecraft surpassed it to become No. It became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, which is a record it still holds.
Posting the videos to GTAForums, fans got a massive look at the yet-unshared footage, revealing plot details, location, game mechanics, characters, and just about everything a video game developer would want to keep under wraps until it was ready to be shown.įor context on just how massive this hack is, GTA V - which hasn't received a proper sequel in nearly a decade -surpassed $1 billion (!) in sales in just three days after its release back in 2013. That project? Grand Theft Auto VI-only one of the most anticipated titles of the last 10 years. On Monday, an 18-year-old hacker by the name of "teapotuberhacker" allegedly breached Rockstar Games' Slack messages, stealing over 90 videos of an upcoming game that had yet to be announced. Do you have any sensitive information in your company's Slack channels? Well, you may want to invest in some non-cloud-based storage.