ShinyHunters Leaks Rockstar Games Data: GTA Online Makes $1.3 Million Every Single Day

Hacking group ShinyHunters has leaked a significant amount of internal Rockstar Games data, revealing detailed revenue figures for GTA Online and Red Dead Online.

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The breach became public knowledge on April 11, 2026, when ShinyHunters claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in a third-party cloud server software called Anodot, a billing analytics tool used by Rockstar. From there, they reportedly grabbed 78.6 million records from Rockstar's Snowflake cloud infrastructure, set a payment deadline of April 14, and made their demands clear: pay up, or the data goes public.

Rockstar did not pay. The data is now public.

When the breach was first reported, Rockstar acknowledged it in a statement to Kotaku, saying that a "limited amount of non-material company information" had been leaked and claiming it would not have an "impact on our organization or our players." The company has not commented further since the data was released.

The figures being shared publicly by GTA fans have been verified against the actual leaked files.

GTA Online Revenue Breakdown

Here is what the leaked data reveals about GTA Online, covering the period from September 2025 to April 2026:

• Average weekly revenue: $9,592,109

• Average daily revenue: $1,319,322

• Minimum weekly revenue: $4,799,298

• Maximum weekly revenue: $27,889,761

• Annualized estimate: approximately $498.8 million per year

Those are staggering numbers for a game that originally launched back in 2013. To put it plainly, GTA Online is still pulling in close to half a billion dollars every year, and it is doing so almost entirely on the back of microtransactions.

Stream	Avg/week	Avg/day	Share
Shark Cards	$7,328,653	$974,589	~74%
GTA+ Membership	$2,262,725	$344,501	~26%
Total	$9,592,109	$1,319,322	100%

Red Dead Online Tells a Different Story

For comparison, Red Dead Online's data covers a longer window, from June 2024 to March 2026, and the contrast is sharp:

Metric	RDO	GTAO
Data period	Jun 2024 – Apr 2026	Sep 2025 – Apr 2026
Avg weekly revenue	$507,193	$9,592,109
Avg daily revenue	N/A	$1,319,322
Min weekly revenue	$316,112	$4,799,298
Max weekly revenue	$868,069	$27,889,761
Annualized estimate	~$26.4M/year	~$498.8M/year

That is roughly $26 million a year versus nearly $500 million. It explains why Rockstar stopped actively supporting Red Dead Online and chose to keep its focus entirely on GTA Online.

RDO vs GTAO Player Activity (weekly avg):

Metric	RDO	GTAO
Avg active users	969,848	9,937,747
Avg new users	123,748	464,316
Avg paying users	~15,289	393,402
Min active users	704,729	6,923,389
Max active users	1,295,690	15,437,856

Platform Breakdown

The leaked data also includes a per-platform breakdown of weekly active users and revenue for GTA Online:

Platform	Weekly Active Users	Weekly Bookings
PS5	3,474,021	$4,486,346
PS4	1,889,729	$973,308
Xbox Series X	1,129,023	$1,867,947
Xbox One	1,026,695	$918,373
PC	894,621	$264,273

PS5 alone accounts for more weekly revenue than every other platform combined. The PS4, despite being a last-gen console, still has more weekly active users than Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC.

PC, interestingly, only makes up around 3% of GTA Online's average weekly revenue. This context makes Rockstar's decision to launch GTA 6 on consoles first, with a PC version coming later, seem far less surprising.

Shark Cards and the Spending Minority

One of the most surprising details is about Shark Cards, the in-game currency packs bought with real money. Leaked figures show Rockstar earned over $5 billion from Shark Card sales between 2014 and 2024.

Even more surprising, between September 2025 and April 2026, only about 4% of GTA Online’s active players were spending money, meaning a small fraction generated nearly all that revenue.

To top it off, one Xbox player in the US spent $1 million on Megalodon Shark Cards in 2020.

A few other notable data points from the leak include:

• Peak daily active users hit 9.34 million on May 20, 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns

• GTA+ subscriptions peaked at 1.3 million subscribers in December 2025

• The Mansions DLC, which released in December 2025, drew 6.1 million daily active users on launch day

• Christmas 2025 average revenue per paying user came in at $60.68 per spender

GTAO Top Countries by Total Bookings:

Rank	Country	Total Bookings
1	United States	$153,075,600
2	United Kingdom	$25,174,080
3	Germany	$15,733,390
4	Australia	$8,950,261
5	France	$8,738,318
6	Canada	$8,560,592
7	Netherlands	$4,522,773
8	Switzerland	$3,717,664
9	Italy	$3,478,350
10	Spain	$2,762,780

What Was Actually Leaked

It is worth clarifying what this data breach does and does not contain. According to reports, the leaked Anodot exports cover aggregated financial and player metrics from 2018 to 2026. There is no source code and no personally identifiable information in what has been made public.

ShinyHunters has previously targeted Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Ticketmaster, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, IKEA, Adidas, McDonald's, and Walgreens, among others. Rockstar is the latest major name on that list.

Bigger Picture

With GTA 6 set to launch in late 2026, Take-Two Interactive and its investors will be paying close attention. Leaked data only adds to the sense of how much is riding on this release.

Recent financial figures from Rockstar North’s official site show around $2.1 billion spent on wages between 2019 and 2025. Many speculate this points to GTA 6’s budget possibly exceeding $3 billion once other costs and wages from additional studios are factored in. Given these leaked numbers, it’s easy to see why the budget is worth watching, as the online mode alone could potentially cover it if the launch goes well.