GTA 6 developer Rockstar has confirmed it’s been hacked by a third party after a hacking group issued a ransom demand.
The CybersecGuru reported earlier today (11th April) that a hacker group had claimed to have breached the studio via Anodot, a SaaS (software-as-a-service) monitoring tool and set a ransom deadline of 14th April. It’s thought the group didn’t breach encryption itself but instead successfully pulled authentication tokens that let it bypass the usual security protocols.
“Rockstar Games. Your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak,” the hacking group demanded. “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.”
Though the hacker group claims to have gained financial, player, and marketing data and compromised its Snowflake platform, the studio says that a “limited amount of non-material” data was collated, and will have “no impact” on the studio, its staff, or its players.
Now, in a statement to IGN, Rockstar said: “We can confirm 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.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time the company has been breached. Arion Kurtaj, the teenager charged with hacking and then blackmailing a string of companies, including Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar, similarly used a third-party app to hack and then leak dozens of assets taken from the then-unannounced Grand Theft Auto 6 back in 2022. He was ultimately deemed unfit to stand trial.
At the time, Rockstar acknowledged the enormous leak of work-in-progress GTA 6 development materials came via a “network intrusion”.
