Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack (opens in new tab)

Rockstar Games, the developer behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has confirmed a cyberattack claimed by hacking group ShinyHunters, which says it accessed the company’s Snowflake environment and obtained data. The attackers exploited Anodot, a third-party SaaS platform used for cloud cost monitoring and analytics, as the entry point and are reported to have extracted authentication tokens, enabling access to a connected Snowflake account without exploiting vulnera...