A whirlwind of a weekend that began off with a possible Grand Theft Auto VI leak has unfurled unexpectedly.

Rockstar Games was hacked over the weekend. You probably noticed the whirlwind that grew from rumored leaked movies of GTA VI that steadily grew to become increasingly legit. But that’s solely the start of a fully wild trip.

According to Rockstar’s official assertion, improvement received’t be impeded:

We lately suffered a community intrusion wherein an unauthorized third celebration illegally accessed and downloaded confidential data from our programs, together with early improvement footage for the subsequent Grand Theft Auto. At this time, we don’t anticipate any disruption to our stay sport companies nor any long-term impact on the event of our ongoing initiatives.

We are extraordinarily disenchanted to have any particulars of our subsequent sport shared with you all on this approach. Our work on the subsequent Grand Theft Auto sport will proceed as deliberate and we stay as dedicated as ever to delivering an expertise to you, our gamers, that actually exceeds your expectations. We will replace everybody once more quickly and, in fact, will correctly introduce you to this subsequent sport when it’s prepared. We wish to thank everybody for his or her ongoing assist by way of this example.

But the leaks had been solely the start. And whereas Take-Two is shortly transferring to take down any of the footage from the leak, as soon as the data is on the market, it’s laborious to manage. But on high of that, it seems that the supply code for GTA V and GTA VI is being supplied on the market.

GTA VI Leaks And GTA V Source Code

This previous Sunday, a person claiming to have been a part of the latest Uber hack revealed display photographs and movies of the supply code. But past that, they gave the impression to be providing up each GTA V’s supply code and on the lookout for a deal from Rockstar or Take-Two for GTA VI’s supply.

Until the supposed hacker’s account was eliminated, they had been popping up on varied boards “taking requests like a reddit AMA” together with asking for the hacker to ship code associated to an ongoing case vs TTI.

For now, although, the mud appears to have settled. Moderators closed the GTA subreddit, however it’s open once more with heavy restrictions on leaked data.

Meanwhile, the hackers accounts have been deactivated, however because the story develops, we’ll hold you up to date.

Perhaps least shocking in the entire story is the quantity of people that view footage rife with placeholder animations and clearly unfinished, and have chosen to take that personally

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and every so often eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

Read the Comments (0)