

It's not clear how much information the hacker managed to obtain in the breach. The company went on to state that work on the next Grand Theft Auto game would "continue as planned" and that it would properly introduce its next game "when it is ready."

"At this time, we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects." "We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto," the company wrote in a statement posted to social media. Word of the hack began circulating over the weekend as an unknown hacker going by variations of the name "Teapotuberhacker" began uploading in-development footage of what was purportedly the next title in the Grand Theft Auto series (informally named " Grand Theft Auto VI," pending the announcement of an actual name).
