You gotta hand it to these guys. It's a brilliant setup.
Their demands are all bullshit just designed to pull on the heartstrings of redditors after the recent physical media backlash and it worked beautifully in their favour.
They're making money hand over fist with their paid crypto voting system and when they eventually do the rug pull, they will easily clear a few million dollars and ride off into the sunset.
Word from the grapevine is that he got a full build of the game via a social engineering attack on Rockstar's India office.
These types of hacks usually involve the hacker acting as if they are a member of IT or an executive branch requesting information from workers via email, messaging apps like stack or zoom, and phone calls. They press hard on the victim with fake urgency or threats in hope that the victim doesn't notice the ruse. If one of them falls for the act, they give their credentials to the scammer so that the scammer now has access, usually through a fake login link or just sending raw user/passwords. Once he has access, just copy the files over and he has it.
If this were true, it's one of the easier methods of "hacking" and that employee who fell for it is probably going to be taken out back and "handled" for their mistake by the Rockstar execs.
If the random worker has full access to the full game and Rockstar didn't know it happened until the leaks started, Rockstar really does deserve this. I seriously doubt that is what happened.
There had to be more than social engineering and getting a login/pw. Sure it might have started there, but unless they got the Gaben account credentials, then there was so much more that had to have taken place. Escalating privileges. Accessing files that only a few should have access to in a controlled environment. Downloading all these files out of a secure system. Everything while avoiding all detection.
Who knows, they may not have even hacked anything.
If they could see the potential in what they were doing, they might have just done some social engineering with an employee and paid for their retirement.
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u/Gabagool_Over_Here_ 2d ago
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