Report: Hackers price stolen Rockstar data at $200K, but it may only be metrics-related info

New evidence shows that ShinyHunters has put a $200K asking price on Rockstar Games' data, but the information has been marked as "non-material" by the studio and may not be important or negatively affect Rockstar's business.

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A bit ago, Rockstar Games was hacked, but not in the same way as the 2022 instance that saw GTA 6 assets spilling onto the internet. Rockstar has fortified their security since the famous GTA 6 leak, and this time around the hackers were only able to access unspecified metrics data. The hackers, a group named ShinyHunters, originally indicated that this info could be related to more sensitive metrics, however Rockstar has since confirmed the leak in an attempt to respond to the situation while assuaging fans--and investors--that nothing critical was stolen.

Now it appears that ShinyHunters has attached a sale value to Rockstar's data. New reports from Dark Web Informer indicate that the hackers are attempting to sell the data for $200,000, however this info remains unverified, with one independent security researcher claiming that the account is misinformed.

Rockstar Games aficionado and news-gatherer videotech also spotted some changes in ShinyHunters' verbiage with their warning message--the hackers now clarify that it was Rockstar's Snowflake instances metrics that were taken.

Whatever the case may actually be, Rockstar themselves seem unperturbed or bothered by the infiltration, possibly because the information that was affected isn't actually noteworthy.

Rockstar Games said as much in their official statement to Kotaku, which reads:

"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 breach could be mentioned during Take-Two's upcoming earnings call with investors, and management may have prepared remarks and/or more info to offer during the Q&A portion of the call.