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Millions of Rockstar Games business records stolen, hacking group says

Daily Maverick · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 309 words · By Reuters
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What to know about Millions of Rockstar Games business records stolen, hacking group says

By AJ Vicens The claim was posted to the website used by the ShinyHunters hacking group on Saturday, according to data collected by cybercrime research platform eCrime.ch.

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What happened

By AJ Vicens The claim was posted to the website used by the ShinyHunters hacking group on Saturday, according to data collected by cybercrime research platform eCrime.ch.

Why it matters

A representative of the hacking group told Reuters in an online chat on Monday it has 78.6 million records from Rockstar’s account with Snowflake, a large corporate data management company.

Common ground

Rockstar's Snowflake data was accessed via a compromise of data from Anodot, an AI-powered business analytics platform, the hacking group representative said.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A Rockstar Games spokesperson said in an email that the company "can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach."”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains general information about Rockstar Games but does not include the specific email quote or confirmation of the 'non-material company information' breach.
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore Rockstar Games, the official hub for iconic games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption.
https://www.rockstargames.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Explore Rockstar Games' journey and discover how GTA, Red Dead Redemption & innovative tech shaped modern gaming culture.
https://www.mobileappdaily.com/success-story/rockstar-games-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Rockstar Games ... Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the asse…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Games
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Claim 2: “Snowflake "proactively disabled all user accounts referencing Anodot from connecting to Snowflake"”
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Web search results from BleepingComputer and other sources confirm Snowflake detected unusual activity and disabled accounts linked to the Anodot integration.
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web search NEUTRAL — "We recently detected unusual activity within a small number of Snowflake customer accounts linked to a specific third-party integration," Snowflake told BleepingComputer.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/snowflake-customers-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hand sifting through data. Update 4/9/26: After publishing this story, Snowflake confirmed to BleepingComputer that Anodot is the third-party integration platform that suffered a security incident.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/snowflake-cus…
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web search NEUTRAL — Executive SummaryIn April 2026, Vimeo disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 119,000 users, resulting from a compromise at its third-party analytics provider, Anodot.
https://www.rescana.com/post/vimeo-data-breach-2026-shinyhun…
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Claim 3: “Rockstar's Snowflake data was accessed via a compromise of data from Anodot, an AI-powered business analytics platform”
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Three separate web search results confirm that the access to Rockstar's Snowflake data occurred via a compromise of Anodot, a third-party analytics platform.
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web search NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters has added Rockstar Games to its dark web leak site. The attackers say they didn’t break into Rockstar or Snowflake directly. Instead, they went through Anodot, a SaaS cloud-cost monitorin…
https://thecybersecguru.com/news/rockstar-games-snowflake-br…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Rockstar-ShinyHunters-Anodot case (today): the attacker did not breach Rockstar nor Snowflake, compromised Anodot and from there extracted integration tokens to access Snowflake as a trusted user.
https://www.aegida-systems.com/en/blog/2026-04-15-case-rocks…
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web search NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters apparently accessed Rockstar's data not by directly cracking its main cloud provider Snowflake, but by exploiting a third-party service called Anodot. Anodot is an AI-powered cloud cost m…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/securityrss_shinyhunters-clai…
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Claim 4: “Rockstar's parent company, New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software TTWO.O”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Take-Two Interactive is a holding company based in New York and that Rockstar Games is its subsidiary.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Headquartered in Manhattan, New York, Take-Two Interactive is an American video game holding company founded in September 1993 by Ryan Brant. It publishes games through 2K Games (Battleborn, BioShock,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Take-Two_Interactive_g…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had pre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Games
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (sometimes shortened to Take 2 Interactive or T2) is an American video game holding company based in New York City founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993. The comp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive
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Claim 5: “The claim was posted to the website used by the ShinyHunters hacking group on Saturday, according to data collected by cybercrime research platform eCrime.ch.”
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The claim is explicitly mentioned in a web search result detailing the Rockstar breach, attributing the information to eCrime.ch and the ShinyHunters website.
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web search NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that is believed to have formed in 2019, and is said to have been involved in a significant amount of data breaches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters
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web search NEUTRAL — The claim was posted to the website used by the ShinyHunters hacking group on Saturday, according to data collected by cybercrime research platform eCrime.ch. A representative of the hacking group tol…
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/millions-of-rockstar-games-bu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach in a May 3 post on its website. ShinyHunters said it seized roughly 6.65 terabytes of Canvas data in the hack.
https://www.dw.com/en/canvas-owner-secures-student-data-in-d…
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Claim 6: “Bleeping Computer reported that the stolen data includes in-game revenue and purchase metrics, player behavior tracking and game economy data for the popular Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online titles.”
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The provided evidence contains Wikipedia entries for GTA Online and Red Dead Redemption, but no evidence from Bleeping Computer or other sources detailing the specific contents of the stolen data (revenue, metrics, etc.).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grand Theft Auto Online is an online multiplayer action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 1 October 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, 18…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_Online
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grand Theft Auto VI is an upcoming action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games. It is due to be the eighth main Grand Theft Auto game, following Grand Theft Auto V (2013), and the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_VI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. A successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, it is the second game in the Red Dead seri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption
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Claim 7: “The incident is "not a compromise of Snowflake's platform or environment, but rather a result of a compromise of Anodot," a Snowflake spokesperson said”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains general information about Snowflake's platform and services, but does not contain the specific quote from a Snowflake spokesperson regarding Anodot.
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web search NEUTRAL — Snowflake develops and sells a cloud-based data platform known as the Data Cloud. The platform allows organizations to unify data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and data sharing into a sin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Inc.
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web search NEUTRAL — From ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications, Snowflake helps you innovate faster and do more with your data.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2025 · Explore the fundamentals of Snowflake, the cloud data platform. Learn about its architecture, its features, and how to integrate it into your data pipelines.
https://www.datacamp.com/blog/what-is-snowflake
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Claim 8: “More than 160 Snowflake customers were targeted in data theft and extortion attempts over several months in 2024, including Ticketmaster, Santander Group, and Advance Auto Parts.”
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Wikipedia confirms a large-scale Snowflake data breach in 2024 affecting numerous high-profile clients, corroborating the general event described.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States. With the dominant political story of the year being the 2024 presidential election, most American-focused media outlets routine…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_the_United_States
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Snowflake data breach refers to a large-scale cybersecurity incident in 2024 involving unauthorized access to customer cloud environments hosted on Snowflake Inc., a cloud-based data and AI platfo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_data_breach
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Claim 9: “A representative of the hacking group told Reuters in an online chat on Monday it has 78.6 million records from Rockstar’s account with Snowflake”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that ShinyHunters claimed to have 78.6 million records from Rockstar's Snowflake account.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Caillou has produced a total of original 92 half-hour episodes (original 345 five-minute segments) aired by Teletoon from 1997 to 2009 and Treehouse TV from 2009 to 2017 in Canada. Sometimes aired PBS…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caillou_episodes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that has been active since 2019 and is said to have been involved in a significant number of data breaches. ShinyHunters has utilized c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters
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web search NEUTRAL — Rockstar confirmed it. 78.6 million records, tied to their Snowflake cloud environment. And Rockstar wasn't the only victim. At least a dozen companies were exposed through the same breach at Anodot, …
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rockstar-breach-explained-786…
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Claim 10: “Anodot is Israel-based”
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Multiple sources, including Tracxn and Startup Nation Finder, confirm Anodot is based in Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anodot is an acquired company based in Ra anana (Israel), founded in 2014 by David Drai and Ira Cohen. It operates as an AI based cost management platform. Anodot has raised $65.5M in funding from inv…
https://tracxn.com/d/companies/anodot/__vKuH9GvL7nqj0OHSS9hA…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anodot is headquartered in Virginia and Israel, with sales offices worldwide. To learn more, follow Anodot on LinkedIn and Twitter. About BENOCS BENOCS GmbH – a spin-off of Deutsche Telekom – is a sma…
https://www.anodot.com/news-item/
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web search NEUTRAL — Anodot has developed an autonomous business monitoring solution that uses machine learning to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time anomaly alerts and contextu…
https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/anodot
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.