GTA 6 development footage leaked in Rockstar Games hack
Arion Kurtaj, a teenage hacker affiliated with Lapsus$, hacked Rockstar Games and leaked GTA 6 footage. He carried out the hack using a hotel TV, a mobile phone and an Amazon Fire TV Stick. In December 2023, a UK court ordered him to be detained indefinitely in a secure hospital.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Rockstar Games
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- GTA 6 development footage
- Cause / method
- Hacking using a hotel TV, a mobile phone and an Amazon Fire TV Stick
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- Arion Kurtaj, who leaked GTA 6 footage, was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a secure hospital.
- The method of the Rockstar Games hack, using a hotel TV, a mobile phone and an Amazon Fire TV Stick, came to light.
- Claims emerged that GTA 5 source code had also been leaked online following the earlier Rockstar Games hack.
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