I'm sure you guys remember the giant GTA 6 hack that took place in 2022 it revealed a
lot of in-development footage of the game and it confirmed a lot of other details about the
project such as the Vice City setting and look at the new protagonist and that was perhaps
the biggest gaming leak of all time it led to Rockstar and take two lawyering up going after
the actual hacker who was just a teenager with some computer knowledge now the trial has begun
and in the process a lot of new information about the hack has actually come out and today we're
going over all of it strap in it's going to be a wild story story and it's surely going to be
one that is remembered for the rest of gaming history seriously every major gaming company
should be beefing up their security after this especially after you hear the new details that
have come out how this hacker did what they did you let me know in the comments what you think
about the story whether you think it's going to happen again to a different company in the future
it probably will drop a like and here we go so in case you're somehow completely out of the loop the
big GTA 6 leak took place on September 18th of 2022. it was almost an hour of in development
footage anonymously published on GTA forums by someone simply known as typo tuber hacker now the
videos were later confirmed to be roughly a year old and they showed a lot of unconfirmed elements
of the game such as the fact that it was set in modern day bringing us back to Vice City the two
main characters were named Jason and Lucia there was a bunch of stuff a bunch of gameplay elements
confirmed like stealth elements the ability to go prone light RPG elements and a lot more the
leak also seemed to confirm that a PC version of GTA 6 is in development as evidenced by some of
the game code in the league which was pretty big news to PC players who were expecting to wait a
year or two after the game launched to get their hands on it but the leaker was reportedly the same
person who hacked Uber just a week earlier it was believed to be associated with a group of
hackers that had recently breached companies like Samsung Microsoft and Nvidia the point is this
was a huge disaster for take two and Rockstar who hadn't even confirmed GTA 6's title at that point
let alone things like setting and protagonist so during the aftermath of the league people started
pointing fingers at each other trying to explain what happened with many people saying this was all
the result of remote work and many big names in the gaming industry were quick to express their
sympathies for rock stars nobody wants their work to be released to the public before it's
even remotely ready so my no matter what you think about the leaks themselves or how they were showed
off you have to admit if you were someone pouring your life and soul into this game you would be
crushed you would be heartbroken when the leaks came out because this is something that you have
like I said poured your heart and soul into and then the public gets to see it before it's ready
so much of the mystery and surprise around GTA 6 has been completely removed and that is not
something Rockstar is ever going to be able to take back take two and Rockstar did their best
to contain the leaks by filing takedowns against anybody who shared the footage and also closing
comments on their social media accounts to make sure nobody could spoil anything for anyone else
but the damage was done this was easily the biggest leak in gaming history and if you ask
me it's going to hang over Rockstar's head for the rest of time but let's get back to the leak itself
the hacker reportedly was able to download all the GTA 6 footage directly from Rockstar's
internal slack groups and claimed to have a ton of digital loot in addition to these videos the
hacker claimed to have gotten the source code the internal builds of both GTA 5 and 6 from
these slack groups and threatened to publish them online if take two and Rockstar didn't give them
what they wanted basically blackmailing the entire company a few days after the footage leaked it was
announced that the hacker had been arrested in the UK it was identified as a 17 year old
from Oxfordshire he was confirmed to be part of the hacking group known as lapsis it reportedly
been arrested previously at age 16 for other cyber-based crimes his trials began in July and
they went into August and according to reports he's facing six counts of computer misuse three
counts of blackmail and two counts of fraud that is serious so that should bring you up to speed
but just the other day some additional information was released about the trial and the exact details
of the hack itself according to the BBC in late August reports court documents of claimed that the
then 18 year old hacker was caught red-handed in the hotel room where he was being held on Bell for
a different hack so law enforcement searched his rumor they found an Amazon fire stick connected to
the hotel rooms TV which allowed the hacker to break into various other cloud services
using his smartphone which I have no idea how that actually works but it sounds like some movie stuff
it was also reported that hacker wasn't even trying to be discreet about the Rockstar hack
while he was executing with the court document saying that Wally was in Rockstar slack chats
he was describing himself to the developers as an attacker while he was snatching up all the data
the hacker reportedly was threatening to release everything he had stolen from Rockstar unless they
directly contacted him through the app Telegram and it's unknown if they ever did that but since
he was arrested three days after the footage went live I'm gonna guess that Rockstar probably didn't
negotiate the fact that this kid committed the biggest hack in gaming history while serving
Bale for a different hack is just it blows my mind and apparently the only reason he was in the hotel
room in the first place was because after hacking Nvidia he had been doxed by a rival group of
hackers and then placed in the hotel by police due to safety concerns while he was on bail so this
kid was literally on house arrest due to hacking and then decided to go ahead and hack again this
time being even more upfront to his victims about he was doing I don't know if maybe he was just
feeling more confident about his ability to get away or maybe he was just feeling like he had
to prove himself after getting docks by a rival whatever reason this is a classic story of flying
too close to the Sun you hacked a major company you got exposed you got caught and then thought
you were good enough to hack an even bigger company while you were literally on lockdown
for the first half it's not that definition of overconfidence I I don't know what it is I mean
honestly to me it's the definition of stupidity but whatever due to all the hacking drama Rockstar
had been understandably reluctant to release any official information about GTA 6 much to the
dismay of you and me I mean on one hand I totally get the people who are getting impatient when
Rockstar's refusal to even reveal a logo for the game because with GTA 5 coming up on its 10-year
anniversary and GTA online starting to get stale the community's ready some indication of what we
can expect for the next chapter in the future of the franchise but on the other hand Rockstar
probably wants to be absolutely certain that the game is in Tip-Top shape before officially
revealing anything because at this point everybody saw the in-progress footage everybody has a
general idea of what to expect so if you're rock star in this situation it makes sense
to hold on to the official reveal the footage until it's completely finished and buttoned up
and capable of blowing people away so like I said before the mystery and the surprise have been
completely stolen away so they need to bring even more than just their A-game to reveal it there's
no benefit of the doubt with this game anymore and a lot of the hype has been derailed because of so
many details that have been common knowledge let me take that back the hype isn't derailed this is
the most hype gaming gaming history but you guys know what I mean even if you didn't get to see the
footage you know the game is set in Vice City you know the game is set in present day you know the
game has a male and a female protagonist so on so forth the hack was devastating to GTA 6 and
Rockstar and take two and I mean they're within their full right to go after that person and
make it happen so I'm amazed at The Audacity Of The Hacker who did this it's kind of sad to hear
that it was such a young person acting like that the kid has already been arrested multiple times
for hacking but instead of setting him straight it only seemed to encourage him to get bigger and
Bolder with his hacks which is why he was openly calling himself an attacker to Rockstar employees
over slack while he was stealing the source code and the development footage in fact they did it
all from the hotel while he was being held due to safety concerns about a previous hacking job gone
wrong kind of sad it'll probably end up being a movie very soon too I'm really hoping this
kid gets his life back on track but actions have consequences you can't commit the biggest hacking
gaming history and expect to walk away unscathed especially if you're using that hack as ammo to
Blackmail a major company now they have insisted Rockstar and take two that is that this league
did not set GTA 6's development schedule back in Insider reports are claiming the game is going to
drop by the end of fiscal year 2025. but I think we all know they're going to play this one close
to the chest and uh we'll see what happens crazy story let me know what you guys think and we still
we're we're looking like we're gonna be 2025 I mean take two's CEO came on himself he didn't
confirm but he said hey fiscal year 2025 we're gonna make a lot of money I'll see you guys soon