{"id":528405,"date":"2026-04-13T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:45:07","slug":"gta-maker-rockstar-games-hacked-again-but-downplays-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528405\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA-maker Rockstar Games hacked again but downplays impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach,&#8221; a Rockstar spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/rockstar-games-reportedly-hacked-massive-data-leak-ransom-gta-6-shinyhunters-2000686858\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the outlet, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has approached Rockstar for comment, and has spoken to the hackers responsible for this latest breach, who called themselves ShinyHunters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are a prolific group of English-speaking cybercriminals, thought to be in their teens, who specialise in data theft and extortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They previously claimed to be behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c729e3qr48qo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hack targeting gig ticket operator Ticketmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The criminals did not tell the BBC how they carried out the Rockstar hack, but confirmed stolen data would be published online as their demands had not been met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Law enforcement advice around the world is not to pay cybercriminal ransoms as it fuels the industry and there is no guarantee hackers will actually delete stolen data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-528405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}