Rockstar Games is going through a data breach controversy again. Following a warning by a hacker group, the Grand Theft Auto VI developer has now confirmed that its servers had been accessed by an outside party using a third-party tool.
Reported by Cybersec Guru, information about this attack had first been posted in the corners of the dark web, where a hacker group was taunting Rockstar about breaching the data via its Snowflake cloud storage system. It was also demanding payment from Rockstar to not leak whatever data it had taken control of:
“Rockstar Games, your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 14 Apr 2026 before we leak, along with several annoying (digital) problems that’ll come your way. Make the right decision, don’t be the next headline.”
The hack was confirmed by Rockstar a little while later with an official statement, via Kotaku.
“We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach," Rockstar Games detailed. "This incident has no impact on our organization or our players.”
Both parties haven"t gone into exact details on what sort of data has been breached in this hack. It doesn"t look like Rockstar is planning to pay up to stop the group from leaking what it has, though.
This is not the first time that Rockstar Games has gone through a hacking-related controversy. The 2022 incident saw in-development gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI hit the internet after an 18-year-old hacker gained access to the studio"s internal Slack channels. In 2023, the hacker was sentenced to an indefinite stay in a UK hospital.
Following multiple delays, Grand Theft Auto VI is now slated to hit Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 consoles on November 19, 2026. Publisher Take-Two is said to be preparing a marketing campaign for the hugely anticipated title this summer.