The infinite money hack issue is clearly increasing in “Grand Theft Auto Online”, and players are reporting through various social sites that hackers have plagued their experience of the open-action worldwide adventure game.

The most common problem involves GTA 5 online players receiving a huge sum of money, often totalling into the millions, in addition to a massive amount of reputation points from hackers. This apparently made the multiplayer mode of the game significantly uninteresting and unbalanced from a competitive viewpoint.

Another problem associated with the infinite money glitches is to do with bounties. This problem, only reported in the multiplayer online mode of the game, allowed hackers to place bounties worth millions on unsolicited players and to hunt them in custom lobbies during the game. As a result Rockstar Games had recently started to ban hackers and other players who are found to be cheating by sending money gifts and placing bounties in GTA Online.

Earlier this week, Rockstar had released a new GTA 5 patch that apparently fixed some issues and prevented hackers from creating custom lobbies where players could earn vast sums of money within short periods of time. The 1.08 patch fixes duplication of vehicles, which players could were able to sell repeatedly for an infinite amount of in-game currency. Rockstar’s development team are reportedly working on fixing the issues and remaining exploits as soon as possible, so gamers could expect a new patch out in the near future.

In GTA Online, users can buy DLC cash cards to covert real money into in-game cash. The money hack issues, however, mean that many players won’t feel the need to purchase the optional packs in order to make progress in the online multiplayer mode. On top of this, the increasing unfairness created by these issues is also likely to frustrate certain gamers too thus driving them away from the multiplayer aspect of the game. Both these affects could have serious implications for Rockstar’s future earnings potential.

GTA 5 has been available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 since September 17. Rockstar Games had released the “GTA Online Multiplayer” mode on October 1.