‘Pay or leak’: Hackers breach Rockstar Games and demand ransom with a graphic straight from Cyberpunk 2077

Rockstar Games has once again come under attack from hackers who now claim that they’ve breached the company’s security. ShinyHunters, as the group is named, is supposedly holding Rockstar’s information for ransom and intends to leak it to the public if it is not paid.

As per Cyber Security Guru, Rockstar Games was hacked after ShinyHunters exploited a vulnerability in Anodot, an AI analytics tool used by various companies, including Rockstar, to maximize cloud hosting efficiency by tracking real-time costs and spending. According to that site, Anodot operates deep within a company’s security system, which seems to have allowed ShinyHunters to pierce into Rockstar Games’ Snowflake data warehouse.

By exploiting a vulnerability in Anodot, the hackers seemingly gained “authentication tokens,” allowing them to simply walk into Snowflake and extract a ton of data before the company’s security caught wind of the situation. Seeing as they accessed the warehouse using legitimate tokens, Rockstar likely had no idea anyone was doing anything nefarious until it was too late.

This group, as Cyber Security Guru explains, has been around for years and successfully breached Microsoft, Wattpad, and AT&T, to name a few of their victims. The group allegedly gave Rockstar an ultimatum: pay the ransom or have your data leaked, with the following picture supposedly sent to the company.

The font, the style, and the editing in the message above are all ripped straight out of Cyberpunk 2077, as this is how most messages appear to you in the game. Though they’re supposed to be professionals, using stuff like this seems, at the very least, childish, though I’m not clued into the inner workings of hacker groups to know how their minds work.

Rockstar Games has confirmed to Cyber Security Guru that a breach had indeed taken place, though users won’t feel any of it. “This incident has no impact on our organization or our players,” the company said.

This isn’t the first time Rockstar Games has had to deal with hackers and potential leakers. Huge development footage of GTA 6 leaked on several occasions a few years back, and if the hackers above are to be believed, perhaps even more is yet to be revealed, even though the game is months away from release.

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The School Room is one of six shelters available in Road to Vostok, and it’s arguably the hardest one to unlock. The condition is tied to finding three Oil Samples that are all located on the Terminal map. The Terminal is in Vostok, which is a permadeath zone. In simple words, your game is truly over if you die.

Let’s figure out how you can find these samples to get yourself a shelter in Vostok.

How to get Oil Samples in Road to Vostok

Before we deep dive into the process, the School Room can be unlocked with a key. You can get this key if you’re lucky. Whether you find it or not is based on your luck, but you don’t have to work hard to find the samples. If you don’t want to rely on your luck, read on.

The Oil Samples are all located on the Terminal map, so you’ll need to have access to Vostok. From Outpost, you’ll first need to go to Minefield. This is an extremely dangerous area as it’s filled with mines. To reduce your risks of dying, you should stick to the edge of the map. You’ll still find mines, but they will be fewer in number.

The mines, honestly, are not a big problem if you’re careful. The actual problem is the AI enemies that patrol these locations. Once you reach the Apartments from Minefield, you’ll be able to reach the Terminal. There are several NPCs that can shred you if you’re not careful.

Ideally, you’ll want to use one of the large tanks in Terminal to scout the area. However, I have always found enemies patrolling them, which means that you’ll need to be on your toes. To make matters more difficult, the exact locations of the tanks will be different.

However, the samples will always spawn at the Terminal, which is some solace. You can bring all three together or across multiple runs. Finding all three in a single run is difficult, but going to the Terminal multiple times isn’t fun either.

Typically, you’ll find these samples near and under the pipes in Terminal. I found them between the large tanks, and yes, there are enemies around. Hence, you’ll have to be swift when adding the samples to your inventory.

Once you manage to bring all three samples, you’ll be able to unlock the School Room shelter. It’s the best choice if you’re looking to farm medicine, which is almost always necessary to have. Hence, the risk is worth the rewards. However, just go the lucky route and hope to find the key from random drops if you don’t want to risk a permadeath.

There are five more shelters you get to unlock to save your resources and in-game progression on your journey.

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