Last Thursday, September 22, the London police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old teenager on suspicion of involvement in multiple cyber attacks. Among them, of course, hack rockstar gameswith which it was possible to steal confidential information related to GTA 6. Today, on Monday, the British authorities formally charged him, so the guilty person 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 trespassing bail”. Regarding the latter, it is important to note that the defendant had already been arrested several months ago. He was part of Lapsus$, a group of hackers who broke into the security systems 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 breaking, as part of an investigation supported by the National Cybercrime Unit of the National Crime Agency. He has been charged in connection with this investigation and remains in police custody.” comment of the authorities.
Consequently, a cybercriminal is unlikely to escape severe punishment. It’s no longer just Rockstar Games hacking and leaking confidential material from GTA 6but also violating the sanctions of their previous actions. According to a popular hacking forum, the defendant was banned from the Internet for 30 days. As soon as the term ended, he again committed an illegal act by hacking Uber. A few days later, he did the same with Rockstar Games.
Obviously, from now on, a trial will begin, where the accused will have the opportunity to provide evidence proving his innocence. However, there is already too much evidence of their actions. Since it’s still youngerit will be interesting to see how the British authorities condemn it.
The code GTA 6 it would be safe
Rockstar Games hack and beyond a leak with over 90 videos GTA 6, has been one of the news that has had the most impact on the video game industry in recent years. In fact, some already consider it the largest filtration in the industrysurpassing that known, which included 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 materials for an upcoming Grand Theft Auto.”
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It took several days for Rockstar Games to acknowledge unauthorized access to its network. However, the good news is that it seems that The code GTA 6 You are safe. Also, it doesn’t look like this situation will have a noticeable impact on the development of the game, which still has a few more years of work ahead of it.
Source: Hiper Textual
