GTA 6 is one of Rockstar’s most important games, and the company always carried out its development with total secrecy, or at least it tried, because in September 2022 there was a huge leak of game data, images and even videos. At first the veracity of said leak was doubted, but in the end Rockstar itself confirmed that it was totally real.
The filtration It was possible thanks to the young hacker Arion Kurtaj, who managed to trick a Rockstar India developer using the classic phishing method, which consists of sending an email with a malicious link to obtain personal data and valuable information. The developer who took the bait worked from home, and this made everything much easier for Arion.
The data that Arion stole from the Rockstar India developer allowed him to recover data from his browsing history, and also They gave him everything he needed to enter Slack that said company used. From there he was able to extract a large number of images and even videos of GTA 6, which was the material that ended up being massively leaked.
Rockstar India has been key to the development of GTA 6
That big data leak confirms it, and we also know that this division is the person in charge of the entire Vice City Beach area. It is not the first time that Rockstar India plays a very important role in a triple A game, and had a large participation in Red Dead Redemption 2, and before being bought by Rockstar it collaborated in the development of titles such as Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, among others.
The leaked videos and images also generated a lot of criticism because They did not meet the expectations that GTA 6 had generated. A lot has happened since that leak occurred, so I imagine that Rockstar will have polished those details, and will have introduced the necessary changes to improve the graphic quality of the game.
The presentation video had precisely the opposite effect, that is, generated very positive opinions and dispelled the ghost of those first leaks. All in all, I think it is best to wait to see real game images before drawing any kind of conclusion, and that these will be the ones that will show the true level of the game.
It is very interesting to see how effective a simple email can be, and how it is capable of completely overthrowing 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 the security of your company the real protection of it It is measured by its weakest link, and if this is an employee who doesn’t know not to open emails of dubious origin, things don’t look good at all.
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Source: www.muycomputer.com
