A major data breach in Grand Theft Auto Leak occurred in September 2022, which dragged the world’s attention toward this popular game. It was the early hours of September 18 when a poster of about 90 videos was posted on GTA forums by the name of teapotuberhacker. This post included the 50 minutes of video footage from the under-development version of Rockstar Games’ upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto 6. The footage was spread across social media and the internet in no time. Shortly after this, the hacker asked for a deal with Rockstar Games in return for unreleased data along with the source code of Grand Theft Auto 5.
What Does The Footage Contain?
The footage was from all stages of game development and work-in-progress gameplay, and some footage was of simple short clips of animation tests. Such a video shows a man leaning out of a car window, armed with a rifle and focusing in a smooth circle. In others, characters walk and run alternately to test animation progressions.
Other videos are more in-depth. In one, a female player character stands up at a diner while pointing a pistol at the cashier, who places stacks of cash on the counter before the player picks up the money and walks away. The scene is voice-acted and fluidly animated but still rough, with character models and scenery lacking the detail expected from a finished game.
Even given the unfinished nature of the clips, with debug commands and technical information overlaid, the leaked footage appears to confirm many reported details about the game, including the presence of a female playable character in the single-player campaign for the first time, and the setting of modern-day Vice City, the GTA world’s equivalent of Miami, which featured in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Is it genuine?
According to numerous reports and sources, it would only be possible to fabricate the sheer quantity of work involved by devoting influential resources. GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive has admitted the leak and sent takedown appeals to YouTube under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, declaring that the company holds the copyright to the posted footage.
Where did it come from?
The hacker says the footage was obtained by breaking into Rockstar’s Slack channel, the communication platform used for internal collaboration. The 90 videos were posted there, he says, and were easily downloaded.
Who leaked it?
Teapotuberhacker also claims responsibility for a recent Uber data breach, and the techniques used appear similar. In both cases, the messaging app Slack was a significant point of entry, where it’s likely that information shared between staff members was used to gain further access to sensitive data. But the Rockstar hack appears less severe than the Uber attack, which involved the attacker gaining administrative access to the entire network, even being able to control the initial response to the hack itself through total control of the Slack account.
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