Take-Two shares slide after GTA VI game footage leaks

Take-Two Interactive shares fell much than 2% aboriginal Monday aft the institution suffered a web intrusion wherever a 3rd enactment illegally accessed footage of the caller Grand Theft Auto videogame.

A idiosyncratic called "teapotuberhacker," who is besides claiming work for the recent hack astatine the rideshare institution Uber, posted much than 90 videos of GTA VI successful its aboriginal improvement signifier to an online forum. The videos uncover details similar the location, the main characters and different cardinal features of the game.

Take-Two Interactive owns Rockstar Games, the workplace down the best-selling GTA series. Rockstar confirmed the leak successful a connection posted connected Twitter Monday.

"We are highly disappointed to person the details of our adjacent crippled shared with you each successful this way," the institution said successful the statement.

The leaked videos were primitively posted to an online connection committee called GTAForums, and the tract present features a banner connected its homepage instructing users not to stock links to the copyrighted materials.

Analysts from Jefferies said the leak is 1 of the largest successful caller memory, but they bash not judge it volition yet wounded crippled sales.

"It's a PR disaster, perchance sets backmost production, and hurts morale," they wrote successful a enactment Monday. "However, based connected what we see, the crippled is further on than galore judge and won't interaction crippled reception/sales."

CNBC's Michael Bloom contributed to this report.