Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 108 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 12, 2026Rockstar Games listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Rockstar Games is reported in US, a country with 2,713 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.

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Rockstar Games

Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 1 month ago

39d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 12, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 12, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Rockstar Games is a major American video game developer and publisher, headquartered in New York City, known for flagship franchises such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. The company operates globally with multiple development studios and is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive. It is one of the highest-revenue video game studios in the world.

Industry: Video Game Development & Publishing
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 1998

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration is claimed of cloud data warehouse metrics via a supply-chain vector (Anodot); Snowflake instances at a company of this scale typically contain significant business and potentially user-related data. The supply-chain compromise angle and threatened follow-on 'digital problems' elevate severity, though no PII at regulated scale is explicitly confirmed, keeping it at high rather than critical.

ShinyHunters claims to have compromised Rockstar Games' Snowflake instance metrics data via a third-party analytics provider, Anodot.com, and is threatening to leak the data along with unspecified 'digital problems' unless a ransom is paid by 14 April 2026.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Snowflake instance metrics data
Third-party analytics telemetry (via Anodot.com)

What the group claims

Your Snowflake instances metrics data was compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 14 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 11 Apr 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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