Last Thursday, September 22, the London Police reported the arrest of a 17-year-old teenager on suspicion of having participated in multiple cyber attacks. Among them, of course, the rockstar games hackwith which it was possible to steal confidential information related to GTA 6. Today, Monday, the British authorities have formally accused him, so the person responsible faces a very serious situation.
According to the London Police, the hacker who allegedly leaked GTA 6 was accused of “two computer crimes and two counts of violating his bail”. Regarding the latter, it is important to mention that the defendant had already been arrested a few months ago. He was part of Lapsus $, a group of hackers who breached the security of companies such as Microsoft, Samsung and Nvidia. At that time he received multiple sanctions, which he violated by hacking Uber and Rockstar Games.
“City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on Thursday (September 22) on suspicion of hacking, as part of an investigation supported by the National Cyber Crime Unit of the National Crime Agency. He has been charged in connection with this investigation and remains in police custody,” the authorities comment.
Therefore, the cyber criminal will hardly be able to get away from severe punishment. It’s no longer just the act of hacking Rockstar Games and leaking confidential material from GTA 6, but also having violated the sanctions of their previous actions. According to a popular hacker forum, the defendant had been banned from the internet for 30 days. As soon as the term ended, he again committed illegality by hacking Uber. A few days later, he did the same with Rockstar Games.
Obviously, from now on a judicial process will begin where the accused will have the opportunity to provide evidence that proves his innocence. However, there is already too much evidence of his actions. Since it is still youngerit will be interesting to see how the British authority condemns it.
The code of GTA 6 would be safe
The Rockstar Games hack, and the subsequent leak with more than 90 videos of GTA 6, has been one of the news with the greatest impact in the video game industry in recent years. In fact, some already consider it as the largest filtration in the industrysurpassing that famous one that involved half life 2 in 2003.
“We recently experienced an intrusion into our network in which an unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded sensitive information from our systems, including early development material for the upcoming Grand Theft Auto.”
RockstarGames
Rockstar Games took a couple of days to acknowledge unauthorized access to its network. However, the good news is that apparently The code of GTA 6 You are safe. In addition, it does not seem that this situation will have a noticeable effect on the development of the game, which still has several years of work ahead of it.