Rockstar Games Confirms Hacker Stole Early Grand Theft Auto VI Footage

American video game publisher Rockstar Games on Monday
revealed it was a victim of a “network intrusion” that allowed an
unauthorized party to illegally download early footage for the
Grand Theft Auto VI.

“At this time, we do not anticipate any disruption to our live
game services nor any long-term effect on the development of our
ongoing projects,” the company said^[1]
in a notice shared on its social media handles.

The company said that the third-party accessed “confidential
information from our systems,” although it’s not immediately clear
if it involved any other data beyond the game footage.

The trove of data, contains some 90 videos of clips from the
game, leaked over the weekend on GTAForums^[2]
by a user with an alias “teapotuberhacker,” hinting that the party
is also the same person responsible for the recent Uber breach^[3].

The Uber hacker, who is going by the name Tea Pot^[4], is believed to be an
18-year-old teenager. No other details are known yet.

“These videos were downloaded from Slack,” teapotuberhacker said
in one of the forum messages. This also likely means that the
threat actor resorted to the same technique multi-factor
authentication (MFA) bombing to get past extra account security
layers.

The hacker’s ultimate goal appears to be to “negotiate a deal^[5]” with the company. “I
will leak more if Rockstar/Take2 doesn’t pay me,” the leaker
posted^[6]
in a message on 4chan.