{"id":75392,"date":"2026-04-14T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75392"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:38:23","slug":"rockstar-games-hack-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75392","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Games Hack Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-dev-rockstar-confirms-a-limited-amount-of-non-material-company-information-was-accessed-in-third-party-data-breach-as-hackers-issue-ultimatum-pay-or-leak\">Rockstar Games hackers<\/a> ShinyHunters released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-online\">GTA Online<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/red-dead-online\">Red Dead Online<\/a>. But, crucially, no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-vi\">GTA 6<\/a> information appears to have leaked online.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen data was viewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/gtaforums.com\/topic\/1004190-gta-vi-delayed-to-november-19-2026\/page\/580\/#comment-1072663072\">GTA Forums user Lexiture<\/a> and reported on by <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/hackers-reveal-rockstar-earns-over-1-million-a-day-from-gta-online-2000687207\">Kotaku<\/a>. It shows GTA Online allegedly generates much more money than Red Dead Online, which doesn&#8217;t come as a big surprise given the difference in support Rockstar gives each live service. It also shows that PS5 is the platform with the most GTA Online players and revenue, with PC lagging behind even the last generation of consoles on both counts.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the Rockstar leaks circulating, I put this together to illustrate the weekly spending in GTA Online on a platform basis.<\/p>\n<p>The data speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Per data from GTA Forums, PS5 generates more than half weekly GTA Online bookings, with $4.486M earned per week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lBdqCZBc1B\">pic.twitter.com\/lBdqCZBc1B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Derek Strickland (@DeekeTweak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeekeTweak\/status\/2043813365244367176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>GTA 6 is planned for release this November on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar Games hackers ShinyHunters released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online. But, crucially, no GTA 6 information appears to have leaked online. The stolen data was viewed by GTA Forums user Lexiture and reported on by Kotaku. It shows GTA Online allegedly generates much more money than Red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":75394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75396,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75392\/revisions\/75396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}