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Arrested the teenager accused of leaking the GTA VI game and hacking Uber


The teenager who is linked to the serious cyberattacks suffered by Uber and Rockstar Games, developer of the popular video game GTA VI, has been arrested and sent to a juvenile center, as reported by the London Police. Investigators believe he hacked into the computer systems of both companies, after which he leaked a large amount of sensitive information onto the Internet.

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The 17-year-old was already arrested last March for his links with the Lapsus$ group. Some researchers and cybersecurity firms even suspect that he is the leader of this group of cybercriminals, known for attacking and extorting multinationals such as Microsoft, Samsung or Nvidia in the first months of 2022.

Lapsus is also associated with attacks against governments and administrations. One of the most serious attacks attributed to him is to knock down a large part of Portugal’s telecommunications networks, which made it impossible for four million Portuguese to communicate with each other or with public services for hours. Vodafone called it a “terrorist act.”

After his first arrest, the teenager was released on bail. On this occasion, the teenager has pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his bail but innocent of hacking, according to the media specialized in video games. Eurogamer.

“The 17-year-old who appeared at Highbury Corner Children’s Court on September 24 has pleaded guilty to breaching his bail conditions and not guilty to computer misuse,” London police said in a statement. to the aforementioned medium. “The teenager has been sent to a juvenile detention center,” he added.

The conditions of the bail that the judge imposed on the young man in his first detention or how long his stay in the juvenile center will last are unknown. elDiario.es has asked the London Police about these questions, which has limited itself to offering the same statement published by Eurogamer.

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Lapsus$ specializes in infiltrating the computer systems of multinationals in order to extort money from those responsible by publishing the information obtained or selling it to the lowest bidder. At this time it is unknown what profit they wanted to obtain from the cyberattacks against Uber and Rockstar Games, although both companies have acknowledged that they involved extensive unauthorized access to their files.

The most serious consequence of this was suffered by the developer, who saw up to 90 videos of the new title in the saga being published on the Internet Grand Theft Auto what you are preparing “We have experienced an intrusion in which an unauthorized third party has illegally accessed and downloaded sensitive information,” Rockstar Games acknowledged.

The massive leak revealed details of the new title in the saga, such as the fact that the protagonist will be a woman for the first time. Also the scene of the action, Vice City, a city inspired by Miami that has already been recreated on other occasions in the video game series, which sold more than 165 million copies of its previous edition. Rockstar Games has regretted that GTA players find out about the news in this way, although it has preferred not to confirm if these news will be included in the final game.

In the cyber offensive against Uber, the attacker (or attackers) gained access to various control panels of the company and demonstrated it by sending screenshots of it to all employees and to the New York Times. He also leaked Uber’s financial data on social media.

However, neither attack resulted in file damage or infections of any kind. Uber’s business was not interrupted and Rockstar Games has stated that it will not have to delay the launch of GTA VI, scheduled for the end of 2023 or 2024. This fact led to the suspicion that the authorship of the attacks fell on the same person or group, which also coincides with the methods that Lapsus$ used at the beginning of the year.



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