> they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less. from the article: > He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging sys

> they could have asked him, and it might have cost them orders of magnitude less. from the article: > He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging system to declare "if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code". he was extorting them.