A year after the hacker attack on Rockstar Games in which company data was stolen, the source code for GTA 5 is said to have been leaked on Christmas Eve.
Hackers are said to have published the source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 on Christmas Eve. A good year after the hacker group Lapsus$ hacked the game manufacturer Rockstar Games and stole company data. How “Bleeping computers” reports that links to download the source code were shared on various channels, including Discord, a website on the dark web and a Telegram channel that the hackers had previously used for stolen Rockstar data.
The exact origin of the code is still unclear. However, according to BleepingComputer’s assessment, it is authentic GTA 5 source code. Rockstar Games has not yet commented on the leak.
Stolen GTA source code: Telegram user pays tribute to imprisoned hacker
In a Telegram channel, a user shared links to the stolen GTA source code and posted a screenshot of a folder
Image: BleepingComputer/Telegram
In a post on a GTA leaks Telegram channel, the channel’s owner named “Phil” posted links to the stolen source code and shared a screenshot of one of the folders.
The channel’s owner also paid tribute to Lapsus$ hacker Arion Kurtaj, who previously leaked preview videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 under the name “teapotuberhacker.” Kurtaj was recently sentenced by a British judge to an indefinite stay in a forensic psychiatric hospital. The reason for this was his hacker attacks on Rockstar and Uber.
Hackers published parts of the GTA 5 source code as evidence of the theft as early as 2022
Rockstar Games was hacked in 2022 by members of the hacker group Lapsus$, who gained access to the company’s internal Slack server and Confluence wiki. The group claimed at the time to have stolen source code and assets from GTA 5 and GTA 6, including a test version of GTA 6. Some of the stolen content was posted on forums and Telegram, including GTA 5 source code samples as evidence of the theft.
Cyberattacks attributed to the hacking group include attacks on companies such as Uber, Microsoft, Rockstar Games, Okta, Nvidia, Mercado Libre, T-Mobile, Ubisoft, Vodafone and Samsung.
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