FBI investigate hacker allegedly behind Rockstar GTA 6 leak - Eurogamer.net

The same attacker also said they were behind last week's high-profile hack of ride app Uber, which has provided an update on its own investigations.

"There are also reports over the weekend that this same actor breached video game maker Rockstar Games," Uber wrote in a newly-updated blog.

Uber said it believed the person responsible to be "affiliated with a hacking group called Lapsus$, which has been increasingly active over the last year or so" and which has similarly breached a list of other technology companies this year such as Microsoft, Samsung and Nvidia.

The GTA maker said it was "extremely disappointed", but that there would be no "long-term effect" on development.

"I had never heard about any of this until recently," the 16-year-old's father said at the time.

I always thought he was playing games.

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