Rockstar hack haul looks thin after the stolen files go public

ShinyHunters, the group that breached Rockstar Games last week, released the stolen material on April 13, 2026, one day before its self-imposed April 14 ransom deadline. The files are already being picked apart on the GTA Forums, and the early takeaway is simple enough.

Rockstar said after the hack that “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed,” and the leaked material appears to back that up. What has surfaced so far centers mostly on sales and financial data, which still gives a clearer look at how much money the studio makes from its online games.

One of the bigger numbers circulating from the leak points to a wide gap between Red Dead Online and GTA Online. Based on a GTA Forums post by Lexiture and checked by Rockstar Games reporter Ben on X, Red Dead Online brought in more than $500,000 per week on average between June 2024 and April 2026, which works out to an annualized estimate of about $26.4 million.

This data breach is focused on GTA Online and Red Dead Online, confirmed by people who've downloaded the data.

We'll be learning a lot how GTAO vs RDRO performs within the company. At this time, no one has reported GTAVI/future projects.

— ben (@videotech) April 13, 2026

GTA Online is on a much bigger scale. The leaked data suggests it earned $9.6 million per week from September 2025 to April 2026, which comes out to just under $500 million a year. The platform split is even more lopsided. PC sits far behind console, with 894,621 weekly active users and weekly bookings of $264,273, while PlayStation 5 leads with a little under 3.5 million monthly active users and $4.5 million in weekly bookings.

Another detail from the leak is that about three-quarters of GTA Online’s revenue comes from Shark Cards, the game’s in-game cash bundles. The numbers also point to a familiar free-to-play pattern, with a small share of users driving most of the spending.

So far, the leak seems to say more about Rockstar’s business than about any future GTA 6 reveal. That makes the breach look like a poor trade for the hackers, especially after they reportedly tried to squeeze Rockstar for $200,000.

‼️🇺🇸 ShinyHunters has priced the Rockstar Games breach at $200K. https://t.co/fES2wim4b2 pic.twitter.com/Eyaa57ieQi

— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) April 13, 2026

oh i misunderstood you. someone was lying and saying theyre selling the data.

but ya idk what they tried extorting rockstar for lol but this isnt worth 200k lmfao, this is worth like $6 and a slice of pizza

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) April 13, 2026

Rockstar declined to comment on the data reveal.

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