A recently discovered exploit could allow hackers to gain access to game accounts in GTA Online.
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Is your GTA Online account at risk? An apparently recently discovered exploit in GTA 5/GTA Online could allow a hacker to damage in-game files or delete your player account. Money, cars, real estate and more would be gone overnight. How big is the concern?
An online game as big as GTA Online is not without its dangers! There have been hacks, exploits and more in recent years, but a new exploit in GTA Online is likely to be more serious than anything we’ve seen before. Now a special warning goes out to PC gamers!
A new Twitter post by Tez2 reads: “New extreme exploits have emerged that allow scammers to remotely access, remove or modify your stats and permanently corrupt your account.”
Rockstar is aware and have been logging any affected account before the first mod menu started abusing the new exploits.#GTAOnline https://t.co/eDtVrOGXQn
– Tez2 (@TezFunz2) January 21, 2023
Mega exploit on Twitter for GTA Online
What should you watch out for? In principle, every PC gamer can be affected. Floorball tweets: “It appears your account is being ‘corrupted’ due to the recent RCE exploit on PC. Essentially, attempting to enter online will leave you stuck in the clouds indefinitely. – Now avoid GTA Online on PC.”
This is how it looks like if your account gets “corrupted” due to the recent RCE exploit on PC. Basically you’ll get stuck in the clouds indefinitely when trying to enter online.
AVOID GTAO ON PC RIGHT NOW#GTAOnline pic.twitter.com/1SqGmz38Jw
— floorball (@Fluuffball) January 21, 2023
What’s even worse than losing your player account in the game: access to your own PC. According to anti-cheat experts, there is a possibility that PC files can also be removed. The issue appears to be related to the possible incorrect use of the Guardian anti-cheat tool.
The Twitter video above Floorball shows the effects of corrupting your account. The broken accounts feature offered in the mod menu that originally caused this has since been removed, but there are many accounts already affected.
What can I do? TezFunz2 on Twitter advises removing the Rockstar Games folder from the documents and then reloading the game to fix the corruption.
So far, Rockstar Games has not released any information about this bug in the game. keep the Twitter-Account von Rockstar Support to learn more about the in-game exploit.
GTA 5 is available for Windows PC, PS5, PS4, PS3, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Xbox 360. the Online versions for PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles however, has already been turned off. Meanwhile, Rockstar Games also has the development of GTA 6 admitted that it hasn’t received a trailer or release date yet.