City of London Police said on Saturday that a 17-year-old who was arrested in Oxfordshire last Thursday.
He has now been charged with two counts of breach of bail conditions and two counts of computer misuse.
While police have not commented on whether the arrest is related to this month’s Rockstar Games data breach, journalist Matthew Keys cited sources that the teenager in question, who is known simply as ‘AK’ due to his age, was arrested in connection with that attack, along with another at Uber.
The teenager is said to be associated with a group called Lapsus$ and was allegedly arrested earlier this year for hacking into Microsoft and Nvidia.“The arrest followed an investigation by federal law enforcement officials in the United States, who worked with their counterparts in the United Kingdom to identify AK as a suspect in both attacks,”
Keys’ source said.
A historic leak of GTA 6
In what will likely be one of the games industry’s most high-profile data leaks, over an hour of Grand Theft Auto 6 development footage was released last week via an anonymous user post on the GTA Forums website.
They claimed to have obtained the leaked assets through an internal Slack channel and said they were also behind a recent Uber data breach that also had Slack at its core.
While it is unconfirmed whether the attacker actually carried out the GTA and Uber attacks, the latter released a statement on Monday acknowledging the potential link.
Uber said it believes its attacker (or attackers) are affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacker group, which has been increasingly active over the past year.
The hacker collective is believed to be responsible for a series of cyberattacks against major technology companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Samsung and Vodaphone.
On Monday, Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two publicly acknowledged the GTA leak, stating that it had “taken steps to isolate and contain this incident.”
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