"ShinyHunters had claimed to have gotten access to Rockstar's servers hosted on Snowflake, and then threatened to release the data it had accessed unless Rockstar paid a ransom."
"The criminals did not tell the BBC how they carried out the Rockstar hack, but confirmed stolen data would be published online as their demands had not been met."
"It's thought that the alleged hack occurred after a security breach of Anodot, a cloud cost monitoring and analytics software service, that allowed ShinyHunters to access the data on the Snowflake servers."
"Law enforcement advice is to never pay these ransoms since it not only legitimizes the money-making method, but also makes it no less likely that the data will be leaked anyway."
ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Rockstar's servers and threatened to release stolen data unless a ransom was paid. Rockstar stated that only a limited amount of non-material information was accessed and assured that there would be no impact on the organization or players. ShinyHunters confirmed to the BBC that they would publish the data online as their demands were unmet. The hack is believed to have occurred through a breach of Anodot, a cloud service, which allowed access to Rockstar's data. Law enforcement advises against paying ransoms.
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