Rockstar hack triggers rise in Take-Two’s stock price after GTA Online earnings leak

Take-Two Interactive has seen its stock price rise by nearly 5% in the last 24 hours, despite suffering a recent breach at Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games.

Last week, hacker group ShinyHunters claimed it had breached Rockstar Games via Anodot, a SaaS (software-as-a-service) monitoring tool, before setting a ransom deadline of April 14th.

“Rockstar Games. Your Snowflake instances were compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak,” read a statment from the hacking group (via The Cybersec Guru). “This is a final warning to reach out by 14 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that’ll come your way. Make the right decision. Don’t be the next headline. FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK.”

Rockstar later confirmed that the breach was genuine, but assured fans that it would have no impact on the studio or its players.

In a statement issued to IGN, Rockstar said: “We can confirm that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach. This incident has no impact on our organisation or our players.”

With the hacker group’s demands were not met, the stolen data was posted online, with many documents referencing earnings generated from microtransactions in GTA Online. According to the data, GTA Online makes Rockstar roughly $1.3 million per day, and around $500 million per year. It’s estimated that GTA Online has generated over $5 billion since its launch in 2013.

This news has unsurprisingly gone down well with shareholders, as parent company Take-Two Interactive’s share price shot up from 202.26 on Tuesday morning, to 212.20 the following day. The rising share price has boosted the publsiher’s market cap by roughly $1 billion.

Nothing is currently known about the next iteration of GTA Online, and with GTA 6’s November 19th release date still far from a guarentee, it could be a while before Rockstar reveals the next genration of GTA multiplayer.

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