Take-Two Appears Unaffected by Rockstar Hack

After hackers leaked stolen information allegedly revealing however overmuch wealth GTA Online and Red Dead Online marque for Rockstar Games, the stock terms of genitor institution Take-Two really went up, suggesting the institution was unaffected by its release.

Rockstar Games hackers ShinyHunters released the stolen information connected April 13 — a time earlier they threatened to — and successful the process revealed alleged gross for GTA Online and Red Dead Online. But, crucially, nary GTA 6 accusation has leaked online.

The stolen information was viewed by GTA Forums idiosyncratic Lexiture and reported connected by Kotaku. It shows GTA Online allegedly generates overmuch much wealth than Red Dead Online, which doesn't travel arsenic a large astonishment fixed the quality successful enactment Rockstar gives each unrecorded service. It besides shows that PS5 is the level with the astir GTA Online players and revenue, with PC lagging down adjacent the past procreation of consoles connected some counts.

In a connection issued to IGN up of the leak, a Rockstar Games spokesperson insisted “a constricted magnitude of non-material institution accusation was accessed,” and stressed the incidental “has nary interaction connected our enactment oregon our players.”

Rockstar's connection successful afloat follows:

"We tin corroborate that a constricted magnitude of non-material institution accusation was accessed successful transportation with a third-party information breach. This incidental has nary interaction connected our enactment oregon our players."

The stolen information allegedly revealed the immense magnitude of wealth GTA Online successful peculiar brings in, adjacent present implicit a decennary aft launch, though again, nary of it should person travel arsenic overmuch of a astonishment fixed GTA 5 has sold implicit 225 cardinal units worldwide.

Yesterday, April 14, Take-Two’s banal jumped from $202.26 to a highest of $207.78 earlier settling connected $205.10, suggesting the leak had nary antagonistic interaction connected capitalist sentiment. Rockstar has yet to remark connected the leak itself.

GTA 6 is planned for merchandise this November connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only.

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