ShinyHunters breached Rockstar Games through a third-party supply chain attack, compromising data by accessing the company's Snowflake cloud instances via Anodot, a cost-monitoring analytics service. The group has set an April 14th ransom deadline, after which it threatens to publish the stolen data.
Rockstar told Kotaku the compromised data was limited in scope and claims the incident has no impact on the organization or its players. The scope of what was actually taken remains unconfirmed.
Read the full piece for the specific ransom details and what ShinyHunters' track record with Snowflake-based attacks tells us about how this plays out next.
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