Make sure you change your passwords just to be safe. As a reminder, it is a good policy to ensure that the Rockstar Games Social Club account username and password is not shared across multiple websites on the internet.' 'For the accounts affected, we are in the process of reverting those accounts back to their original owners. If you did not receive the verification email, login to Social Club and click the PROFILE tab in the SETTINGS menu which can be accessed by clicking on your profile avatar in the top right hand corner of the screen. However, it appears that attempts have been made to access user accounts using email and password combinations from an unaffiliated, compromised website or database elsewhere on the internet. After signing up for Social Club, you will receive an email with a link to click in order to verify your account.
'As confirmed yesterday, the Rockstar Games Social Club has not been compromised. Rockstar issued a statement to Kotaku to say that it wasn't. Which lead to some users assuming Social Club was hacked. Over the last couple of days, a few users on Reddit and Rockstar Twitter support started reporting getting kicked out of their GTA Online sessions and seeing an error telling them the same account has logged in from elsewhere.Īnother site - which I won't link to for obvious reasons - posted a long list of Social Club emails and passwords in plain text. Following a number of reports from users who had their Social Club accounts hijacked, Rockstar has confirmed that the service has not been hacked.