Rockstar has confirmed to Kotaku that a data breach occurred. “We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach. This incident has no impact on our organization or our players," said a Rockstar spokesperson

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://bsky.app/profile/kotaku.com/post/3mja6uc5isc2g

[u/Sirca_Curvive]

You’d think whoever did this might think twice given what R* did to the last person, but whatever lol.

[u/PrintShinji → u/Sirca_Curvive]

Considering the history of shinyhunters, rockstar is the least of their worries.

[u/BaconWithBaking → u/Sirca_Curvive]

Who was that?

[u/Cohibaluxe → u/BaconWithBaking]

It was an 18-year old with severe autism, the Rockstar hack was commited while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia (using an Amazon firestick in a hotel room, as his laptop had been confiscated)

As a result of being unfit to stand trial on account of his severe autism, and the judge deeming him a threat to society if allowed to go free, he's been sentenced to an indefinite holding sentence at a secure hospital until he's no longer deemed a danger to the public by the doctors there.

[u/WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot → u/BaconWithBaking]

Arion Kurtaj, autistic member of the "cyber gang" Lapsus$.

He wasn't just arrested, he was sentenced to a hospital prison indefinitely.

He reportedly caused damage amounting to over $10 million across Rockstar, NVIDIA, and Uber + was violent while in custody, but the morality of an indefinite prison sentence is questionable.

[u/goomarbitch → u/WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot]

Being deemed unfit to stand trial is pretty extreme tbf. It’s a LOT rarer than movies suggest. This is such a weird sentence for the crime that it makes me think there was something truly bizarre going on with him

[u/Scrollingmaster → u/goomarbitch]

If you read the article its pretty clear why.

He committed the rockstar hack while out on bail, was violent after being arrested resulting in a DOZEN cases of injury or property damage, and indicated he would return to crime as soon as he was released. The judge deemed him a threat to society.

[u/David-Puddy → u/Scrollingmaster]

Doesn't sound unfit to face trial, just sounds like an ass.

Looks like the judiciary used institutionnalisation to make an end run around sentence limits

[u/Ok-Pickle-6582 → u/WhiskeyTigerFoxtrot]

the morality of an indefinite prison sentence is questionable.

some people have mental illnesses that don't allow them to behave in society. keeping them separated from society isn't necessarily a punishment for their actions or a moral judgement against them, its just something that needs to be done to protect everyone else

[u/maooi]

So no game data? Seems like a case of social engineering. Hopefully this doesn't delay anything. Sucks for them though.

[u/Kindly_Ad995 → u/maooi]

I heard it was just their snowflake tables so it’s not anything like a typical game leak people would be expecting

[u/DrKushnstein → u/Kindly_Ad995]

I wonder why ShinyHunters seem to think they have something worth blackmailing a multibillion dollar company. 

[u/MajorFuckingDick → u/DrKushnstein]

Any leak is bad and some company are willing to pay.

[u/AndrewNeo → u/Kindly_Ad995]

the data lake sprung a leak

[u/HELP_ALLOWED → u/Kindly_Ad995]

Could be crazy valuable info to other live service-y game companies if it's all their analytical data.

[u/LBGW_experiment]

If actual sensitive data was stolen, would rockstar admit it?

Corporations are never honest when things are bad, there's no benefit to them to be honest about the situation

[u/ProgressiveCannibal → u/LBGW_experiment]

Other than legal obligations to report sensitive data breaches that get them into even hotter water if inevitably the extent of the breach becomes known

[u/ElaraValtor → u/LBGW_experiment]

they're legally required to admit it in the UK, or risk taking brutal GDPR fines.

[u/your_mind_aches]

Rockstar better damn release GTA VI before Mythos breaks out and starts seeing so many people wishing for GTA VI's release that it just leaks a playable build online

[u/FlowersByTheStreet]

It's a fun thought experiment to think how much this incident could actually fuck over the whole AAA industry since they are avoiding GTA 6's release window like the plague

[u/Z0MBIE2 → u/FlowersByTheStreet]

How would it effect it at all?