{"id":346693,"date":"2026-06-06T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=346693"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:48:23","slug":"grand-theft-auto-v-cheat-service-gets-hacked-exposing-1000s-of-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/grand-theft-auto-v-cheat-service-gets-hacked-exposing-1000s-of-gamers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto V cheat service gets hacked, exposing 1000&#8217;s of gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlas Menu, a cheat service for popular online video game Grand Theft Auto V, has been hacked, in keeping with data breach notification website <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Breach\/AtlasMenu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Have I Been Pwned<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stolen data included users\u2019 email addresses, usernames, scrambled passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, in keeping with Have I Been Pwned, which said almost 64,000 accounts were a part of the breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mockingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260514141710\/https:\/\/atlasmenu.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Atlas Menu<\/a> claimed to supply \u201csecure authentication and enhanced privacy through our advanced encryption techniques,\u201d in keeping with its official site, which is down on the time of writing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacker who claimed responsibility for the breach posted the allegedly stolen data on GitHub. The hacker\u2019s motivation seemed to be revenge against a scammer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owners of Atlas Menu couldn&#8217;t be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-block block--callout block--right has-green-500-background-color\">\n<h4 class=\"block--callout__title\">Contact Us<\/h4>\n<p>\t\t\tDo you develop cheats, hack video games, or work in anti-cheat? We\u2019d love to listen to from you. From a non-work device and network, you may contact Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai securely on Signal at +1 917 257 1382, or via Telegram and Keybase @lorenzofb, or email.\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlas Menu, in keeping with a video posted on its website, for instance offered features equivalent to \u201cinvisibility;\u201d \u201csuper jump,\u201d which allowed the player to leap higher than normal; and the power to fly through the map.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impact of the breach appears to show users who signed as much as Atlas Menu to cheat on the sport. Game cheats have evolved right into a multimillion-dollar business, as skilled gamers seek a bonus over their competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlas Menu will not be the primary cheat service to get hacked. A preferred cheat service for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GlobalOffensive\/comments\/ofsqi5\/one_of_the_biggest_private_cheat_service_hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was reportedly breached<\/a> a number of years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Menu, a cheat service for popular online video game Grand Theft Auto V, has been hacked, in keeping with data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned.\u00a0 The stolen data included users\u2019 email addresses, usernames, scrambled passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, in keeping with Have I Been Pwned, which said almost 64,000 accounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[2216,1389,10487,3391,2214,12897,4055,2215,11088],"class_list":["post-346693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-auto","tag-cheat","tag-exposing","tag-gamers","tag-grand","tag-hacked","tag-service","tag-theft","tag-thousands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346696,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346693\/revisions\/346696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}