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2026-04-13 | Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang

1. AI Summary

Rockstar Games data breach via stolen Snowflake tokens from an Anodot incident; ShinyHunters extortion gang leaks 78.6 million records. Tokens used to access Snowflake, S3, and Kinesis. No impact on player data but exposed analytics and support info.

2. IOCs

IOC Type Value Description Relevant MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
Domain
anodot.com
Anodot, the anomaly detection company whose breach provided stolen tokens. T1078.004|T1048
Domain
shinyhunters.extortion.site
Data leak site where stolen Rockstar Games data is displayed. T1048|T1078
Domain
snowflakecomputing.com
Snowflake cloud data warehouse platform accessed using stolen tokens. T1078.004|T1133

3. MITRE ATT&CK

Code Title
T1078.003 Account Manipulation – external shared account (Snowflake) accessed with stolen tokens
T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment - Phishing – initial compromise inferred via Anodot security incident
T1078.004 Cloud Account – compromised Snowflake account
T1048 Exfiltration Over Web Services – data posted to extortion site
T1078 Valid Accounts – use of stolen credentials for cloud services
T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel – off‑site data transfer via internet
T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer - Ingress Tool Transfer – potential upload of stolen data to extortion site
T1133 External Remote Services – access to Snowflake and S3
T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpet: PowerShell - Command Shell – commands to transfer data
T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information – revealing analytics data

4. Targets

Type Value
Company Rockstar Games

5. Article Details

6. Original text

Rockstar Games
has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site. The threat actors claim the data was taken from Snowflake environments using authentication tokens stolen during a recent Anodot security incident. They have now published what they say is
Rockstar Games
data containing more than 78.6 million records. "Your Snowflake instances metrics data was compromised thanks to
anodot.com
," reads a listing on the ShinyHunters extortion site.
Rockstar Games
listed on ShinyHunters extortion site Source: BleepingComputer
Rockstar Games
did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the breach from BleepingComputer. However, in a statement shared with Kotaku, the company confirmed that it suffered a data breach. "We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach," Rockstar told Kotaku . "This incident has no impact on our organization or our players." The threat actors told BleepingComputer that the leaked data primarily consists of internal analytics used to monitor Rockstar's online services and support tickets. This data allegedly includes in-game revenue and purchase metrics, player behavior tracking, and game economy data for Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online. The datasets also appear to contain customer support analytics for the company's Zendesk support instance. In a file list shown to BleepingComputer, there were references to fraud detection systems and anti-cheat model testing. The incident is part of a larger data theft campaign linked to a recent security incident at Anodot , a data anomaly detection company that integrates with a wide range of SaaS cloud platforms.

As first reported by BleepingComputer, the threat actors stole authentication tokens from the service and used them to access customer data stored in connected Snowflake, S3, and Amazon Kinesis instances. Snowflake confirmed to BleepingComputer last week that it had detected unusual activity affecting a small number of customer accounts tied to a third-party integration, and responded by locking down the affected accounts and notifying customers. The company later confirmed that the third-party integration company was Anodot. The ShinyHunters group told BleepingComputer it was behind the attacks and claimed to have stolen data from dozens of companies using the compromised tokens.

Rockstar Games
previously suffered a breach in 2022 when a hacker associated with the Lapsus$ extortion group leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay videos and source code.