After not meeting the demands of a ransom, hacking group ShinyHunters has released a treasure trove of data on Rockstar's intensely successful Grand Theft Auto 5, revealing just how much money the title rakes in for Rockstar on a weekly basis.
Assuming the numbers are true, Rockstar is averaging a staggering $8.5 million in net bookings per week from GTA Online, with PlayStation 5 being the platform providing the largest share of that pie at 53%, followed by PS4 with 11%, Xbox Series X at 22%, Xbox One at 11%, and PC at 3%. The newly released data was obtained by hacking group ShinyHunters, which breached a third-party service attached to Rockstar Games' cloud platform. The hacking group demanded $200,000 to not release the data by April 14. Rockstar confirmed the hack, downplayed its severity, and didn't accept the ransom.
Popular Now: DLSS 5 has been modded into Skyrim, and it definitely transforms character facesOne transaction amid the troves of data was an individual who spent $1 million on Shark Cards in a single transaction in GTA Online. Specifically, $1,030,926 tracked in 2020 was followed by $984,000, the second-largest transaction in 2017. The third comes in at $953,000. Funnily enough, almost all of the extremely large transactions were made on Christmas Day. Another interesting fact from the data was that Shark Cards made Rockstar $5 billion in 10 years.
If you are interested in checking out other financial information that was part of the data breach, TweakTown's Derek Strickland has done a fantastic breakdown with charts in the article linked below.
