The story in a nutshell: On reddit, a player posts a screenshot of his character standing in the casino. In the top corner you can see his stash of gaming chips: Almost 2 billion. Players are amazed, but also warn. Because the newly made online billionaire explains that his account was hacked and he still had the money in the account when he got the account back. Isn’t Rockstar Games taking action on this? We show you the details and reactions of the players.

How the player got his account back

This is the whole story: On reddit, user MoistWave posts a screenshot from GTA Online on August 13. Along with it the caption “I just got my account back after being hacked. And I have 2 billion chips in my account.” It is important to know about this: The chips can be converted 1:1 into GTA dollars. One of the fastest supercars costs just under 3 million GTA dollars, but usually the cars cost less. So with almost 2 billion GTA dollars, MoistWave could go on a splurge shopping spree.

MoistWave explains in an interview with PCGamesN that his account was hacked while he was inactive and not playing GTA 5. “Honestly, I don’t even know what happened when my account was hacked. I didn’t even notice because I wasn’t active in the game. I only noticed that my account email was changed when I went to reset my password. Since I got my account back, everything has been fine.”

What do the players have to say about this? On reddit, the story was often commented. Many are envious and would like to have such a fat account balance in the game themselves. With our 13 tips to earn a lot of money quickly in GTA Online, you’re on the right track. But many also advise caution, because actually Rockstar would reset such money, which may have been transferred to the account through cheats.

“This is how we find out if Rockstar controls this subreddit,” wrote Due-Werewolf-5825. Many other users agree with this statement with upvotes. About 6 hours later MoistWave replied to it and wrote “All good, I still have my account”.

Others write:

• “Go to roulette and bet 2 billion on red!”.
• “Leave it there and only turn it into money when you need it. Don’t take out large sums or buy anything in the casino store and don’t let Rockstar know about it. Even if your account was hacked, they’d probably just reset your account.”
• “Well, there are 2 visible names on the screenshot. Guess for yourself. OP was hacked and now he wants to be banned. Those are Balls of Steel.”

So far there is no update from the surprised billionaire. He may have taken his cash and made himself comfortable with El Rubio on Cayo Perico. How the account got so many chips is unclear. It is obvious that cheats are involved here. In the early days of the casino, there was a glitch in the horse race that Rockstar Games just couldn’t get a handle on. For days, players stuffed their virtual accounts with chips as a result.