GTA V On the Radar - New Exploit Lets Hackers Kill You in Single-Player Mode

GTA V is a game that every gamer was waiting for, it is the latest entry from the best-seller saga “Grand Theft Auto”. This particular game had a lot of expectations to fulfil since it was going to be the final release for the past generation of consoles.

With that in mind, the game surpassed any expectations and went beyond that. With an online feature focused on online interactions, it was incredibly fun and had the best game modes that any fan could wish for, however, there were a lot of glitches and errors that went under the radar of the developers.

The “Sudden Death” Incident in Single-Player

A Twitch streamer was speed-running the single-player story of GTA V like he always does, but in this case, while he was in the middle of it, his game car completely stopped and his character got out of the vehicle just to die immediately.

At first, it seemed that this particular player had found an odd glitch within his playthrough of GTA V, but the truth was that this death was the cause of a Modder, and all while he was playing the single-player.

How Did This Incident happen?

This particular twitch streamer told us that he was playing the online mode early that week, and he reported that a hacker was harassing him and a friend. One of the main assumptions was that the same hacker used a modding tool to mess with the speed run of such player.

Not only was he the first victim of this attack, but two of his friends also suffered this and it was hard for them to play the game properly. After that, it was rumoured that this type of attack was being seen in other speed runners, almost making the game impossible to play.

Apparently, these hackers found the data mining process of the game and, with the help of the modding tool kits, they were able to mess with the game of the players that were connected to the internet and playing the single player mode since they were slightly connected.

What Was the Final Solution?

When the information came out, a lot of users chose to remain offline and turn off the internet connection of their home consoles or PC. With that, the hackers weren’t able to interfere with the game. But this left the players completely offline and without any way of connecting to the internet while playing.

Luckily for us, Rockstar found a quick solution to this problem and it was fixed in a quick patch that was introduced weeks after this event. They were surprised that these hacking attempts were successful in the first place since they were confident with the safety of their servers, as well as the data of their players.

This GTA event is incredibly interesting and also shows us how far a hacker will go to try to mess with the personal experience of a player, but thanks to Rockstar this problem is now in the past.