GTA Online‘s most popular paid mod menu got hacked, and almost 64,000 users had their personal data published online.
The mod, called Atlas Menu, sold players god mode, invisibility, crash tools, and the ability to spawn any vehicle in Los Santos. It cost IRL money, it served tens of thousands of paying customers, and it advertised “rock-solid security” right there on the homepage, until someone walked in and took its users’ data.
GTA Online cheat service Atlas Menu suffers major data breach
Have I Been Pwned, a cybersecurity website that reports on data breaches, puts the number of affected accounts at over 63,900, with breached data including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, support ticket contents, and password hashes stored in bcrypt format.
Atlas Menu has not posted any statement about the breach at time of writing, despite the homepage still advertising that “rock-solid security.” However, the site appears to have halted new purchases, though whether that’s breach-related remained unclear.
The cheats on offer included god mode, health regeneration, invisibility, weapon and vehicle spawning, and a selection of crash and trolling options. Atlas charged for all of it, though it’s hard to report how much it cost given their Pricing site is down at the time of writing.
The joke, somehow, is buried in the service’s own terms of service, which states the menu is “licensed strictly for offline, single-player use” and that any online use “is a direct violation of Rockstar Games’ Terms of Service.”
Atlas added that it would “not be held liable for bans, suspensions, or any negative consequences.” It turns out the biggest threat to Atlas customers was not Rockstar, though.
The cheating services scene around GTA Online has faced sustained pressure for years: Take-Two pursued legal action against the creators of the Evolve mod menu in 2019, and Rockstar added BattlEye anti-cheat to PC lobbies after almost a decade of hacker complaints.
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GTA is also fighting a surge of malicious actors at the moment, with GTA 6 fans being targeted by phishing scams and malware-laced fake beta downloads ahead of the November release.
