GTA Online Data Stolen By Hackers Resulted In A Sharp Rise In Take-Two’s Stock Price
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The hackers' blackmail, demanding $200,000 from Rockstar to keep confidential data confidential, turned into a triumph for the publisher. After the hackers published the stolen financial statements, the shares of parent company Take-Two soared. It turned out that the figures in the documents—in particular, GTA Online's weekly revenue of approximately $8 million—impressed investors far more than the hack itself.
As a reminder, ShinyHunters hacked Rockstar's data vaults using the third-party AI analytics platform Anodot and, after the studio refused to cooperate, released the stolen information publicly.
The leak did not contain assets for the hotly anticipated open-world crime action game GTA VI, currently in development at Rockstar, but rather data on the p...