GTA 6 is one of Rockstar’s most important games, and the company has always done its development in complete secrecy, or at least tried to, since a huge leak in September 2022 game data, images and even videos. At first, the authenticity of the mentioned leak was doubted, but finally Rockstar itself confirmed that it is completely real.

The leak was made possible thanks to a young hacker Arion Kurtaj, who managed to deceive the developers of Rockstar India using the classic phishing method, which consists in sending an email with a malicious link to obtain personal data and valuable information. The developer who took the bait was working from home, and that made things a lot easier for Arion.

The data Arion stole from developer Rockstar India allowed him to recover data from his browsing history and also They gave him everything he needed to join Slack which said company used. From there, he was able to obtain a large number of images and even videos from GTA 6, material that ended up being massively leaked.

Rockstar India was key to the development of GTA 6

The big data leak confirms this and we also know that this split is the person in charge of the entire Vice City Beach area. This is not the first time that Rockstar India has played a very important role in a triple A game and it had a big hand in Red Dead Redemption 2 and before it was bought by Rockstar it collaborated on the development of titles like Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3 among others.

The leaked videos and images also drew a lot of criticism because They didn’t live up to the expectations that GTA 6 raised. A lot has happened since the leak, so I think Rockstar will polish these details and implement the necessary changes to improve the game’s graphical quality.

The presentation video had exactly the opposite effect, i.e. generated very positive opinions and dissipated the spirit of those first escapes. All in all, I think it’s best to wait for the actual gameplay images before jumping to any conclusions, and that those will be the ones that show the true level of the game.

It is very interesting to see how effective a simple email can be and how it is able to completely overthrow a complex and expensive protection strategy for a project as important as GTA 6. In the end, no matter how much money you invest in your company’s security, its real protection Measured by its weakest link, and if it’s an employee who doesn’t know not to open emails of questionable origin, that doesn’t look good at all.

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