GTA 6 is tipped to be the biggest game ever, coming nine years after its predecessor, which is still racking up hundreds of millions of dollars a year for Rockstar Games through its ongoing multiplayer GTA Online iteration. Over the weekend, however, Rockstar Games was hacked and massive amounts of GTA 6 gameplay footage leaked onto the internet. The footage has since been confirmed and it looks like the hack has resulted in one of the biggest video game leaks in history.
This isn’t the only major recent cybersecurity incident, however, with another hack grabbing the headlines recently as ride-hailing app Uber was also the subject of a massive breach that saw a malicious actor gaining access to the company’s Slack channel and wreaking havoc on the company. Shockingly, it seems as though both of these hacks may in fact be linked. Let’s check it out.
The GTA 6 leak started to appear on the GTAForums on Sunday when they were posted by a user called teapotuberhacker. The result was that RAR files containing over 90 stolen GTA 6 videos were shared online. The videos seemed to be taken during internal testing of GTA 6 gameplay. When users on GTAForums said that they didn’t believe the leak was real, teapotuberhacker claimed to have also bee responsible for the Uber hack.
The Uber hack involved a social engineering hack on an Uber employee, which involves manipulating the victim to perform actions against their interest and divulge sensitive information. The nature of the leaked GTA footage could indicate that a similar method has been used on an unwitting Rockstar employee. Furthermore, the hacker behind that Uber attack was named TeaPots, which does offer a link to the GTA hack.
At the moment, it isn’t possible to prove a link between the two hacks but there is compelling evidence that at least warrants further investigation. We will be following developments on this story closely.
In other recent cybersecurity news, the whole LA school system was recently the subject of a vicious ransomware attack.
