Since they are continuing on with business as usual, I assume that no critical assets\code was stolen. With the buzz this will generate, all in all a win for Rockstar?

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 17:45:
the weakest part of all cybersecurity is the people working at the company.

Can't fix stupid.

rockstar has 2000+ employees. unfortunately it is too easy to scrape linkedin and get contact information for a lot of them. from there the social engineering begins. for the people that do this, that is their full time job and they are good at it. So yes, stupid people, but also probably a lack of best practices training.

"Never judge a game while still in its Ubisoft stage." 😄

Xero wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 15:04:

Sempai wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 14:50:

Xero wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 14:30:
For what it's worth, I watched some of the footage circulating all over the place at this point and was impressed by the animations. They're taking the human looking movements to another level once again. The shooting of someone and watching how they react before falling is frightening realistic. To the point where, I think playing the game enough is going to truly desensitize you to how it would be if you saw someone get shot right in front of you in real life. I'm not sure if getting ultra realistic in games that are based in real world/real life is a good thing entirely...

i remember statements like these from the 80's then the 90's(Doom anyone?)and the aughts on up.. Stahp!

Haha, I know about those times. Heck, they thought Mortal Kombat would show someone how they can use their bare hands to rip a person's head clean off theirs shoulders... Yet nobody took any of that seriously because it was all cartoony at the end of the day.

What Rockstar has here is something that borderlines real life and lets you simulate mass murders/shootings, etc. and at this point, at the most realistic manner possible. My point being was that, shooting a demon in the face gives you zero feels of how that would translate to shooting... a real demon in the face, lol. On the other hand, GTA6 gives you a simulation of how a person looks like dying to the point of realism that you wouldn't be fazed if you saw someone in real life get shot in the body or face and saw them fall over. It's quite graphic... I'll still buy the game though

i'm fairly certain i'll be there like a dummy w/money in hand when it releases lol.

I'm 100% confident that any repercussions this might have will be fixed almost instantly by a Take 2 quality of life update.

the weakest part of all cybersecurity is the people working at the company.

Can't fix stupid.

Now I can hear the lawyers grabbing their bludgeoning weapons.

Sempai wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 14:50:

Xero wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 14:30:
For what it's worth, I watched some of the footage circulating all over the place at this point and was impressed by the animations. They're taking the human looking movements to another level once again. The shooting of someone and watching how they react before falling is frightening realistic. To the point where, I think playing the game enough is going to truly desensitize you to how it would be if you saw someone get shot right in front of you in real life. I'm not sure if getting ultra realistic in games that are based in real world/real life is a good thing entirely...

i remember statements like these from the 80's then the 90's(Doom anyone?)and the aughts on up.. Stahp!

Haha, I know about those times. Heck, they thought Mortal Kombat would show someone how they can use their bare hands to rip a person's head clean off theirs shoulders... Yet nobody took any of that seriously because it was all cartoony at the end of the day.

What Rockstar has here is something that borderlines real life and lets you simulate mass murders/shootings, etc. and at this point, at the most realistic manner possible. My point being was that, shooting a demon in the face gives you zero feels of how that would translate to shooting... a real demon in the face, lol. On the other hand, GTA6 gives you a simulation of how a person looks like dying to the point of realism that you wouldn't be fazed if you saw someone in real life get shot in the body or face and saw them fall over. It's quite graphic... I'll still buy the game though

Xero wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 14:30:
For what it's worth, I watched some of the footage circulating all over the place at this point and was impressed by the animations. They're taking the human looking movements to another level once again. The shooting of someone and watching how they react before falling is frightening realistic. To the point where, I think playing the game enough is going to truly desensitize you to how it would be if you saw someone get shot right in front of you in real life. I'm not sure if getting ultra realistic in games that are based in real world/real life is a good thing entirely...

i remember statements like these from the 80's then the 90's(Doom anyone?)and the aughts on up.. Stahp!

For what it's worth, I watched some of the footage circulating all over the place at this point and was impressed by the animations. They're taking the human looking movements to another level once again. The shooting of someone and watching how they react before falling is frightening realistic. To the point where, I think playing the game enough is going to truly desensitize you to how it would be if you saw someone get shot right in front of you in real life. I'm not sure if getting ultra realistic in games that are based in real world/real life is a good thing entirely...

Cram wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 13:12:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 12:13:
Maybe this will convince this multi-billion dollar company to invest more heavily into IT and cybersecurity, but probably not.

Not that Rockstar has confirmed this but it appears following a lot of Reddit threads that a Rockstar employee (Rockstar India) was social engineered. The hacker got / was given his password by the employee, and that was it. This attack wasn't some Hollywood movie high tech 10 million lines of code hacking situation with secret service helicopters in pursuit which $billion firewalls would have stopped if implemented.

Some users saying you can have billions invested in security and still get social engineered, others saying that isn't an excuse for a company that size etc etc. Lot of back and forth there.

This is how many hacks work. There's a reason the most prolific hacker of all time was a social engineering specialist. This is one thing MFA is supposed to address, as it's hard to give somebody "something you have"/"something you are" over the phone. If they're not using MFA on project data, Rockstar is way behind much of the technical world on social engineering and brute force/common password protection.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 12:13:
Maybe this will convince this multi-billion dollar company to invest more heavily into IT and cybersecurity, but probably not.

Not that Rockstar has confirmed this but it appears following a lot of Reddit threads that a Rockstar employee (Rockstar India) was social engineered. The hacker got / was given his password by the employee, and that was it. This attack wasn't some Hollywood movie high tech 10 million lines of code hacking situation with secret service helicopters in pursuit which $billion firewalls would have stopped if implemented.

Some users saying you can have billions invested in security and still get social engineered, others saying that isn't an excuse for a company that size etc etc. Lot of back and forth there.

Maybe this will convince this multi-billion dollar company to invest more heavily into IT and cybersecurity, but probably not.