A story circulated that Rockstar Games had been hacked and that a group of hackers wanted to be paid a ransom or they would release the company’s secrets.
That rumor suggested that Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the biggest games of all time coming from Rockstar on November 19, was at risk. But a spokesperson for Rockstar denied that was the case.
Update [11:09 am 4/13/26]: The hackers at ShinyHunters say they will release the information now.
“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,” the spokesperson said.
The ShinyHunters hacker group posted a statement saying, “Your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak,” according to the first report on the hack by Cybersec Guru.
The hackers said it was their final warning to reach out before the leak would happen by April 14.
“Make the right decision, don’t be the headline,” the statement said.
Cybersec Guru said that ShinyHunters has been around since roughly 2020. The publication said ShinyHunters doesn’t go after individual users but “target APIs, identity systems, and integrations, then sell or leak what they find.”
The publication said ShinyHunters’ past victims include Microsoft (a claimed 500GB source code theft in 2020), Wattpad (270 million user records), Cisco, AT&T, and Ticketmaster. They’re also linked to the Snowflake-related credential theft wave that caused problems throughout 2025, Cybersec Guru said.