GTA 6 date and a security snag

Rockstar Games says Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, even as the company deals with a separate third-party data breach. (rockstargames.com) (ign.com) Rockstar posted the release-date update on November 6, 2025, saying the game would arrive on a Thursday, November 19, 2026. The company had previously targeted May 26, 2026, before moving the date later. (rockstargames.com) (ign.com) The security issue surfaced in April 2026, when Rockstar said “a limited amount of non-material company information” had been accessed through a breach at a third-party service provider. Rockstar said the incident had “no impact on our organization or our players.” (ign.com) (forbes.com) A third-party breach means the break-in happened at an outside vendor that stores or processes company data, not necessarily inside Rockstar’s own systems. Reports tied the incident to Snowflake-hosted data and to the hacking group ShinyHunters, which threatened to publish or sell material if a ransom was not paid by April 14. (forbes.com) (gadgets360.com) The timing matters because Grand Theft Auto VI is Take-Two Interactive’s biggest scheduled release, and the company has already had to reset expectations once. In February 2026, Take-Two said it still expected Grand Theft Auto VI to launch on November 19, 2026, and that marketing would begin in summer 2026. (ign.com) Rockstar has dealt with a much larger Grand Theft Auto VI leak before. In September 2022, the company said an unauthorized party had illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto. (rockstargames.com) (bbc.com) That 2022 breach led to criminal proceedings in the United Kingdom involving teenager Arion Kurtaj, who was found to have carried out hacks linked to Rockstar and other companies. A jury found he committed the Rockstar hack, and a judge later ordered him detained in a secure hospital. (reuters.com 1) (reuters.com 2) For now, Rockstar’s public position is narrow: the April 2026 breach was limited, non-material, and separate from the release plan it set last year. The next test is whether the company reaches November 19 without another delay or another leak cycle. (ign.com) (rockstargames.com)