GTA 6 Dev Rockstar Games Hit With Stolen Data Extortion Deadline

This week, Rockstar Games made headlines as the latest victims of hacker group ShinyHunters, with its Snowflake data warehouse instance infiltrated via compromised Anodot authentication tokens. ShinyHunters backed its threat with a Cyberpunk 2077-inspired ransom note, insisting that Rockstar "pay or leak" and that this move is "a final warning to reach out by 14 April 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital problems that'll come your way." At first blush, particularly since ShinyHunters shared information of the leak and how it happened prior to Rockstar or Take-Two commenting on it, this marks the third severe leak relating to Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of its long-delayed launch. The first was in 2022 and the second in late 2025, if you're keeping track.

But is the threatened leak as severe as ShinyHunters threatens? Rockstar's response comment doesn't seem ...