{"id":249207,"date":"2024-07-30T12:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/why-gta-6-leak-reaction-surprised-ex-rockstar-developer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:37","slug":"why-gta-6-leak-reaction-surprised-ex-rockstar-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/why-gta-6-leak-reaction-surprised-ex-rockstar-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GTA 6 leak reaction surprised ex-Rockstar developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Why-GTA-6-leak-reaction-surprised-ex-Rockstar-developer-900x600.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A former Rockstar Games developer has said that recent leaks about <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/gta-6-everything-we-know-release-date-speculation-trailers-setting-and-more\/\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> were not a big deal, despite it being one of the biggest data breaches in the history of the games industry. In a recent interview with San In Play, San Andreas developer Obbe Vermeij blamed the reaction on the company\u2019s policy of remaining secretive about the game.<\/p>\n<p>Vermeij stated that the September 2022 leaks \u201care usually not as important as people think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notorious hacking group Lapsus$ caused nearly $10 million in damages to the affected companies. An 18-year-old hacker, Arion Kurtaj, was <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/teen-hacker-behind-gta-leak-sentenced-to-indefinite-hospital-order\/\">sentenced to an indefinite hospital order<\/a> after releasing 90 clips from the highly anticipated GTA 6.<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"ENTREVISTA com OBBE VERMEIJ - Ex-Desenvolvedor da Rockstar Games! (GTA San Andreas, GTA VC e Mais!)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpF3lMqgPSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>He managed to breach Rockstar\u2019s internal systems and threatened to release the game\u2019s source code unless contacted by the company. Remarkably, he carried out the hack while under police protection and without his usual tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/gta-6-leaks-hacked-using-hotel-tv-and-amazon-fire-stick\/\">using an Amazon Firestick<\/a>, a hotel TV, and a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Rockstar has been quiet about GTA 6<\/h2>\n<p>In response to the leak, Vermeij said: \u201cIt\u2019s just because there are millions of people waiting for any news, and Rockstar doesn\u2019t give them any news.\u201d The developer has spent the past few years revealing details about the making of the studio\u2019s previous games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Came across this rare photograph of the dev team behind gta3.<br \/>This would have been taken in 2000\/2001 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.<br \/>(names in comments)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gta?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gamedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gamedev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/og?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#og<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bjZsPlAeks\">pic.twitter.com\/bjZsPlAeks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Obbe Vermeij (@ObbeVermeij) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ObbeVermeij\/status\/1732561521496953154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While he explained that he can \u201ctotally understand\u201d why studios generally never divulge information about their games, he added that \u201ctheir best bet is just to be quiet. That\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s a shame it\u2019s gone that way, but it\u2019s not just their fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-GTA 3 developer continued, saying that studios tend to behave this way \u201cbecause whenever a big company says anything, whether it\u2019s Rockstar or EA or Ubisoft of whatever, it gets analyzed and it often gets run negatively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar Games reported substantial financial and operational impacts due to Kurtaj\u2019s actions, including a recovery cost of $5 million and extensive staff hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/VI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GTA 6<\/a> is expected to be released in fall of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: Rockstar Games<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/gta-6-leak-rockstar-developer\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A former Rockstar Games developer has said that recent leaks about Grand Theft Auto 6 were not a big deal, despite it being one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}