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　　Following Uber's hacking attack last week, well-known game developer Take-Two became the latest victim of a vicious cybersecurity incident this past weekend. Its popular IP "Grand Theft Auto 6" under development has been tested on a large number of real machines. The video was posted online by hackers who threatened the company to "come and talk."

　　According to media combing, a hacker named "teapotuberhacker" released 90 screen recordings suspected to be the "Grand Theft Auto 6" platform on the GTA forum. The hackers said they obtained test videos and source code for the Grand Theft Auto 5 and Grand Theft Auto 6 projects by attacking Slack, the workplace messaging software of the game developer's employees. The hacker said he was likely to release more leaks related to the project and was looking forward to "negotiating an agreement with the company."

　　Well-known game industry reporter Jason Schreier confirmed through an informant that the large-scale leak over the weekend was indeed a video of "Grand Theft Auto 6", of course, in an unfinished state earlier. It was without a doubt a nightmare for the company and the biggest leak in video game history.

(Source: Social Media)

　　The "Grand Theft Auto" series is a well-known IP in the world's game history, with a total sales volume of more than 370 million copies. Among them, "Grand Theft Auto 5" is the most successful generation of commercialization. Since its release in 2013, the cumulative sales have exceeded 160 million copies, and the overall revenue has exceeded 6 billion US dollars. As an old game that has been released for nearly 10 years, this game has often been squeezed into the game sales list in the past two years. Its online model operated alone can still earn 800 million US dollars every year by selling in-game tokens.

　　Although it is reported that Take-Two has started the development of "Grand Theft Auto 6" since 2014, it was not until February of this year that the project was publicly confirmed, and the confirmation of the news alone caused the company's stock price to plummet by 7%. It is reported that the new version will use Miami as a blueprint and include a female protagonist for the first time.

　　Also committed the Uber attack

　　According to reports, when the hacker leaked the game video, it was revealed that he was also the one who attacked the well-known technology company Uber last week, and the attack method was also highly similar.

　　Hackers sent mass emails to employees by controlling workplace communication software Slack, saying, "I am a hacker, and your company has suffered an information breach." The hacker also appears to have compromised multiple internal systems and posted "explicit photos" on Uber employee intranet pages. In response, Uber said it had called the police and had no evidence that sensitive user information was involved in the incident.

(Source: UBER official push)