Tuesday, December 26th 2023
Grand Theft Auto 5 Source Code Leaked a Year After Rockstar Games Hack
An unknown group leaked the source code of Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5) to the web. The group posted the source code up for downloads through media such as bit torrent. There is a dedicated Telegram channel for GTA leaks, in which the admin, who goes by "Phil," posted leaks to the alleged GTA 5 source code files, including screenshots of its root folder. He also paid homage to UK hacker Arion Kurtaj from the Lapsus$ group, which breached the networks of Rockstar Games in 2022. A UK Court last week sentenced Kurtaj, who is clinically diagnosed to be autistic, to be institutionalized indefinitely. The Telegram post by "Phil" shared not just links to the GTA 5 source code and screenshots, but also the hashtag "FreeArionKurtaj."
Source:
Bleeping Computer
24 Comments on Grand Theft Auto 5 Source Code Leaked a Year After Rockstar Games Hack
Brings a new meaning to grand theft now doesn't it :laugh:
I am free to love the fact their lax security gave us a look under the hood to enable modding and evolutionarily development their profits got in the way of.
To me it’s like saying you can’t look in the black box under the hood of your car cause reasons….. don’t find security holes in things for reasons….. it makes no sense if I own the product.
Such a clever little rat - now sentenced because of likely greed power abusement.
I have no pity for them, maybe this kickstarts development of all those mods recreating the older games with the GTA5 engine that they DMCA'd before releasing the "remastered" collection. It certainly will throw a wrench into the money machine GTA Online still is.
It's like, this is clearly wrong and bad, but also fucking awesome!
Ok, GTAO was making them tons of money, singleplayer got pushed aside, fine. BUT why did they NEVER fix the ridiculously bad security layer of GTAO that basically made multiplayer unplayable then? This is the very reason why I quit ages ago. I have better things to do with my time than getting instakilled over and over by some retard who downloaded a cheat program from somewhere and with a click of one button turns an entire session upside down. And using the invulnerable (or what is it called) mode majorly limits what you can do, so that's not a solution. And even that sometimes didn't help.
I used to make the same argument, and I still know it's true. I'm not condoning the hack, I'm not condoning the dump.
I'm simply stating a possibility of why it happened.
...yeah he's a lot of things but clever isn't one I'd use.