GTA 6 Studio Rockstar Accuses Fired Employees of Leaking 'Confidential Information in a Public Forum'

Rockstar Games has accused the employees it precocious fired of leaking confidential information.

Last week, the Grand Theft Auto 6 workplace reportedly fired betwixt 30 and 40 employees successful a determination that the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) claimed was "blatant" and "ruthless" national busting.

At the time, Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two issued a connection insisting the firings were for "gross misconduct, and for nary different reason."

Rockstar has accused fired unit of leaking institution secrets. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

According to Bloomberg, the fired workers were each UK and Canadian employees who were besides portion of a backstage commercialized national chat radical connected Discord, and were either national members themselves oregon trying to signifier Rockstar. The IWGB claimed the unit were fired explicitly owed to national activities.

Now, a caller Bloomberg study carried a caller connection from Take-Two, successful which the institution insisted the fired unit had leaked institution secrets successful a “public forum.”

“Last week, we took enactment against a tiny fig of individuals who were recovered to beryllium distributing and discussing confidential accusation successful a nationalist forum, a usurpation of our institution policies,” the Take-Two connection read. “This was successful nary mode related to people’s close to articulation a national oregon prosecute successful national activities.”

According to the IWGB, the fired unit were portion of a backstage national radical connected Discord, and the lone non-Rockstar radical wrong it were labour organizers.

Take-Two brag Strauss Zelnick has stressed the value of institution information pursuing GTA 6 leaks. Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images.

These firings travel up of the expected merchandise of GTA 6 successful May adjacent year. Analysts foretell it volition beryllium the biggest amusement motorboat of each time. Amid immense excitement for the crippled itself, Rockstar has released conscionable 2 trailers and a bid of screenshots, keeping its cards adjacent to its chest.

It has besides enactment a absorption connected information aft suffering a monolithic leak of the in-development GTA 6 successful 2022, and the day-early merchandise of GTA 6 Trailer 1 the pursuing year. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick called the 2022 leak "terribly unfortunate... and we instrumentality those sorts of incidents precise earnestly indeed." He added: "There’s nary grounds that immoderate worldly assets were taken, which is simply a bully thing, and surely the leak won’t person immoderate power connected improvement oregon thing of the sort, but it is terribly disappointing and causes america to beryllium ever much vigilant connected matters relating to cybersecurity.”

Last year, the workplace asked employees to travel to the bureau 5 days a week, citing a tendency for some accrued productivity and security. This determination was criticized by workers affiliated with the IWGB, who said Rockstar broke promises with the forced instrumentality to office, and accused the workplace of refusing to prosecute with workers connected the issue.

Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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