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What Happens if the Rockstar Hacker Leaks the GTA6 Source Code - Gizmodo

What Happens if the Rockstar Hacker Leaks the GTA6 Source Code - Gizmodo

What Happens if the Rockstar Hacker Leaks the GTA6 Source Code - Gizmodo
Sep 22, 2022 1 min, 18 secs

What, if any, is the impact of a severe hack earlier this week going to be on Rockstar Games’ business?

Last summer, EA Games suffered a fairly disastrous hack that saw game source code leaked all over the web.

The hacker claims to have stolen source code for both GTA5 (published 2013) and GTA6 (rumored release date in 2025), posted select screenshots of the code to an online forum, and has threatened to release the rest of it.

If the hacker managed to steal server-side code for GTA6, that could potentially open up Rockstar to a cheating problem, the professor speculated.

Daniel Wood, an academic researcher who studies the cyber insurance industry, said that if the company had cyber insurance, then an insurer could have partially helped with costs, but it’s not clear that Rockstar had any.

“It looks like the Rockstar hack mainly damaged IP and reputation,” he said, adding that he doubted “the financial coverage would have helped” in this case.

There are also serious and often disappointing limitations to what kind of protection the cyber insurance industry can provide, Wood said.

“Even when cyber insurance covers something, the insurance limit is often exceeded because insurers are not comfortable offering limits in the hundreds of millions (to get this, insureds must get insurance from a coalition of insurers),” he said?

It’s hard to imagine that this will seriously deter the release of the new game, he added.

People are still going to be impressed as hell [with the game], they [Rockstar] are still going to make billions of dollars.

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