Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (TAKROC1787653455)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Take-Two Interactive's Breach and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Take-Two Interactive Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Take-Two Interactive breach identified under incident ID TAKROC1787653455.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Take-Two Interactive's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/take-2-interactive-software-inc-, the number of followers: 127736, the industry type: Entertainment Providers and the number of employees: 1204 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 805 and after the incident was 765 with a difference of -40 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Take-Two Interactive and their customers.
On 20 August 2024, Take-Two Interactive disclosed Data Leak issues under the banner "GTA 6 Leak Investigation: Take-Two Targets Discord Servers in Data Hunt".
Take-Two Interactive issued subpoenas to Microsoft and Discord to uncover the source of a GTA 6 leak.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Unreleased GTA 6 footage and game map.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Legal subpoenas issued to Microsoft and Discord.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating leak originated...when an account named CyberLeek posted unreleased GTA 6 footage and Trusted Relationship (T1199) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shinyHunters hacking group stole 78.6M Rockstar records by targeting Anodot, a third-party analytics vendor. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Steal Application Access Token (T1528) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating anodot...had access to persistent authentication tokens. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cyberLeek posted unreleased GTA 6 footage and a portion of the game’s map and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating leak involved...game map posted by an account named CyberLeek. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cyberLeek later burned its holdings erasing the tokens and Defacement (T1491) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating leak involved unreleased GTA 6 footage and game map posted publicly. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Hide Artifacts (T1564) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating darkViperAU denied involvement, stating no knowledge of the leak. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Information Repositories (T1213) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating unreleased GTA 6 footage and a portion of the game’s map were leaked. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Take-Two Interactive Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/take-2-interactive-software-inc-/incident/TAKROC1787653455
- Take-Two Interactive CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/take-2-interactive-software-inc-
- Take-Two Interactive Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/takroc1787653455-rockstar-games-take-two-interactive-breach-august-2026/
- Take-Two Interactive CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/take-2-interactive-software-inc-/history
- Take-Two Interactive CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/privacy/2026/08/gta-6-leak-hunt-could-expose-data-belonging-to-thousands-of-discord-users
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf