{"id":395064,"date":"2026-04-12T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:58:11","slug":"rockstar-games-says-hack-will-have-no-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395064\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Games says hack will have \u2018no impact\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group <a href=\"https:\/\/hackread.com\/shinyhunters-rockstar-games-snowflake-breach-anodot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ShinyHunters<\/a> claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company\u2019s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April 14th, or it will leak the data it has stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a statement provided to <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/rockstar-games-reportedly-hacked-massive-data-leak-ransom-gta-6-shinyhunters-2000686858\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>, the company said that the compromised data was limited in scope and \u201cthis incident has no impact on our organization or our players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s unclear exactly which data was compromised, but it appears the hack <a href=\"https:\/\/thecybersecguru.com\/news\/rockstar-games-snowflake-breach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">targeted corporate data<\/a> rather than player information. It\u2019s possible that financial records, marketing data, or contracts with companies like Sony and Microsoft could be included in the haul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This isn\u2019t the first time Rockstar has been the victim of a high-profile hack. In 2022, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/18\/23359156\/gta-6-leak-gameplay-footage-90-videos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">huge cache of videos<\/a> from GTA VI were leaked online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22998479\/lapsus-hacking-group-cyberattacks-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lapsus$<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[213,61,60,43,769,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-395064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-security","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}