{"id":203520,"date":"2022-09-19T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=203520"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:26:57","slug":"are-uber-and-gta-6-hacks-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/are-uber-and-gta-6-hacks-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the recent Uber and GTA 6 hacks linked?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GTA 6 is tipped to be the biggest game ever, coming nine years after its predecessor, which is still racking up hundreds of millions of dollars a year for Rockstar Games through its ongoing multiplayer GTA Online iteration. Over the weekend, however, Rockstar Games was hacked and massive amounts of GTA 6 gameplay footage leaked onto the internet<\/strong>. The footage has since been confirmed and it looks like the hack has resulted in one of the biggest video game leaks in history<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This isn\u2019t the only major recent cybersecurity incident, however, with another hack grabbing the headlines recently as ride-hailing app Uber was also the subject of a massive breach<\/strong> that saw a malicious actor gaining access to the company\u2019s Slack channel and wreaking havoc on the company. Shockingly, it seems as though both of these hacks may in fact be linked<\/strong>. Let\u2019s check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GTA 6 leak<\/a> started to appear on the GTAForums on Sunday when they were posted by a user called teapotuberhacker<\/strong>. The result was that RAR files containing over 90 stolen GTA 6 videos were shared online. The videos seemed to be taken during internal testing of GTA 6 gameplay. When users on GTAForums said that they didn\u2019t believe the leak was real, teapotuberhacker claimed to have also bee responsible for the Uber hack.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uber hack involved a social engineering hack on an Uber employee<\/strong>, which involves manipulating the victim to perform actions against their interest and divulge sensitive information. The nature of the leaked GTA footage could indicate that a similar method has been used on an unwitting Rockstar employee<\/strong>. Furthermore, the hacker behind that Uber attack was named TeaPots<\/strong>, which does offer a link to the GTA hack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment, it isn\u2019t possible to prove a link between the two hacks but there is compelling evidence that at least warrants further investigation<\/strong>. We will be following developments on this story closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other recent cybersecurity news, the whole LA school system was recently the subject of a vicious ransomware attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GTA 6 is tipped to be the biggest game ever, coming nine years after its predecessor, which is still racking up hundreds of millions of dollars a year for Rockstar Games through its ongoing multiplayer GTA Online iteration. Over the weekend, however, Rockstar Games was hacked and massive amounts of GTA 6 gameplay footage leaked … Continue reading “Are the recent Uber and GTA 6 hacks linked?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":203543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2542],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-203520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionuber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323186,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203520\/revisions\/323186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203520"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=203520"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=203520"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=203520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}