Before anyone has even gotten their hands on Grand Theft Auto 6, there are confirmed reports of grand theft… data.
A group of established ransomware hackers, collectively known as ShinyHunters, successfully breached Anodot, a third-party cloud cost-monitoring and business analytics provider used by developer Rockstar Games. According to the site Hackread, the hacker group posted a message on its dark website on Saturday, revealing its access to Rockstar’s Snowflake servers.
In a statement to Kotaku on April 11, Rockstar Games confirmed the data breach but said player information is safe.
“We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach,” according to the statement. “This incident has no impact on our organization or our players.”
The hack seems to be focused on corporate information, potentially including “contracts, financial documents, marketing plans and other data,” according to Kotaku. Anodot’s website lists a wide range of clients, including Puma, Vimeo, King, Tripadvisor
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