Rockstar Games hack leads to theft and release of analytics data
Rockstar Games was hacked, with data stolen and a ransom demanded. The company said a limited amount of non-material information had been accessed and that there was no impact on the company or its players. ShinyHunters later released the stolen analytics data.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Rockstar Games
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Limited non-material information and analytics data stolen and released
- Cause / method
- External hack
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- The hack of Rockstar Games and a ransom demand using the stolen data came to light.
- Rockstar Games confirmed the breach, saying the information accessed was limited and there was no impact on the company or its players.
- ShinyHunters released analytics data stolen from Rockstar Games.
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