Rockstar Games Hit By Hacker Group Who Threaten "Pay Or Leak"

Source: Lowyat.NET
Published on: 2026-04-12 09:45

The infamous hacker group ShinyHunters are at it again. Just last year, they have claimed to have hit insurance company Allianz. A more recent target turns out to be Rockstar Games. The group claimed to have gained access to the company's servers run by Snowflake, a cloud-hosting company and provider. Per a report by Hackread, the hacker group published a message on the dark web claiming that it accessed the Rockstar Games instances by Snowflake via Anodot, a cloud cost monitoring and analytics software. It's something that Rockstar does use, which likely mean that the company's cybersecurity personnel did not notice the infiltration until it was too late. Probably worth noting that just a few days ago, BleepingComputer reported that Snowflake was a target of data theft following a security breach at Anodot. This incident is likely the precursor to the Rockstar Games episode. On that ...

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