“GTA” is one of Rockstar’s most well-known game series, “GTA 6” is the latest work in development, given the praise and high sales of its predecessor “GTA 5”, this new game also Highly anticipated by players.

Background: As of August 2022, GTA 5 has sold 170 million copies worldwide, making it the second-best-selling video game of all time.

A hacker stole pre-built gameplay videos and source code for GTA 6 after hacking into Rockstar’s servers.

On Sunday, the hacker first uploaded GTA 6-related gameplay videos to the GTAForums forum, which contains 90 game-related videos, revealing the scenes, characters, dialogues, environments, and some gameplay in the game. In conjunction with the operation, the leaked video has since been uploaded to platforms such as YouTube and Twitter, gaining wider dissemination. These gameplay videos are supposed to be created by developers to test and debug various features in the game, and the content of these videos is also very consistent with early game rumors.

After the hacker released the game video, he also stated in Telegram that he would accept “offers for the sale of GTA 5 source code and assets, as well as GTA 6 documents, but the source code of GTA 6 has not been sold for the time being.” In order to prove the authenticity, the hacker also released part of the source code of “GTA 5” and “GTA 6” as further evidence, and said that he was also behind the recent cyberattack on Uber.

After the incident, Rockstar did not issue a statement for the first time, but Jason Schreier, a well-known figure in the game industry, posted on his personal social media.expressafter speaking with Rockstar sources, confirmed that the leak is real.

I’ve confirmed with Rockstar sources that this weekend’s massive GTA 6 leak is indeed real. Of course, these gameplay footage is early, unfinished content. It was one of the biggest leaks in video game history and a nightmare for Rockstar Games.

Nearly two days after the incident, Rockstar issued last night’sofficial statementto confirm that you have encountered a network intrusion.

We recently experienced a network intrusion, where an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage of the next GTA. We do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term impact on our ongoing project development.

We are very disappointed to share the details of our next game with you in this way. Our work on the next GTA game will continue as planned.

At present, Rockstar has sent DMCA infringement notices and removal requests to GTAForums, YouTube, Twitter and other platforms, requesting these platforms to remove the content related to “GTA 6”. If you go to the Internet to view the content now, the corresponding files and videos have been deleted. Unable to open (interested users can go to the domestic platform to search to see if there is an archive).

Although the official said that development will continue as planned and will not be affected by this incident, this may just be a set of rhetoric to appease players. Considering that the game “GTA” will have an online mode, in order to prevent criminals from modifying the game, making game plug-ins, and ensuring the experience of all players and the fairness of the game, Rockstar is likely to significantly modify the game code, or even overthrow and rewrite all sources. Code, game release time will be more or less affected.

But then again, what do you want to do with eight levels of if nested in your ancestral code? Open world multiple endings all depend on if?