filtration GTA 6 will undoubtedly be the news that has the greatest impact on the video game industry in 2022. After videos and images of an early version of the game began flooding various corners of the Internet, Rockstar Games confirmed that it was the victim of illegal access to your network and thus the theft of confidential files. The whole scandal was caused by one person. BUT hacker who appear to be being pursued.
On the same Monday, shortly before Rockstar Games released its first statement, popular hacker forum unprotected responsible for filtering. As already mentioned, this is Arion, who is supposedly the leader of LAPSUS$. Do you remember this group of cybercriminals? They recently attacked companies such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, Okta and Mercado Libre. British authorities identified him as teenager only 16 years old residing in the UK.
According to information from BBC, as many as seven LAPSUS$ members aged 16 to 21 were arrested at the end of March. However, since some of them did not reach the age of majority, they did not suffer severe punishment. Among them, of course, will be Arion.
The above forum confirms that the hacker was released on April 2, 2022 and was banned from any contact with the Internet for a month. However, it did not take long for him to return to his old habits. They guarantee that his first major victim after his release was Uber. This attack, in fact, took place just last week.
Interestingly, the hacker who called himself “Teapotuberhacker” on the GTA forums also mentioned his attack on Uber. By disclosing this information, he wanted the members of this community to attach great importance to him. The truth is that most didn’t trust it until the user was prompted to download and open the shared file. It contained over 90 videos of the version still in development. GTA 6. The chaos that followed after that, you already know.
Hours passed, and it became more and more obvious that the hacker intended to obtain financial gain. He claimed to have the source code gta5 D GTA 6, and said he was open to five-figure offers for the first. Later he announced your intent to contact Rockstar Games reach an agreement that would avoid leaking code GTA 6 and other multimedia materials that he allegedly had with him.
Now, as we intuitively understand from Rockstar Games’ statement, the only thing that has been leaked is the gameplay video. That is, the criminal would not have the source code GTA 6 — neither the one in the previous title —.
At the time of this post Teapotuberhacker has gone completely off the internet. He no longer connected to the GTA forums and his Telegram account, where he was also active on various channels, was deleted.
If the information provided by the hacker forum is real, then the UK authorities already know who they are dealing with. You can be sure that filtering GTA 6 There are more chapters to be told…
Source: Hiper Textual
