{"id":141362,"date":"2023-09-01T21:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=141362"},"modified":"2023-09-01T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:11:39","slug":"teenage-hackers-who-leaked-grand-theft-auto-6-details-convicted-in-uk-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/teenage-hackers-who-leaked-grand-theft-auto-6-details-convicted-in-uk-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Hackers Who Leaked ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ Details Convicted in UK – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A London jury has found two teenagers responsible for numerous high-profile hacks as members of the Lapsus$ group, which carried out various attacks on Grand Theft Auto game publisher Rockstar Games, tech giant Nvidia, ride sharing service Uber, and British telecommunications company EE, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj and a 17-year-old male\u2014who was not identified due to his age\u2014were convicted in court Wednesday, Bloomberg<\/i><\/a> reports. Kurtaj was blamed for hacking Rockstar Games\u2019 servers in 2022 and leaking confidential information to the public about the upcoming game, Grand Theft Auto 6.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2022, Kurtaj illegally retrieved sensitive data and video from Grand Theft Auto 6 from the company and posted a message in Rockstar Games\u2019 Slack group stating, \u201cI am not a Rockstar employee, I am an attacker.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kurtaj told Rockstar that he had acquired all of Grand Theft Auto 6\u2019s data and gave the firm an ultimatum, demanding that it contact him over Telegram or he would release the stolen data. Over 90 video clips and images of Grand Theft Auto 6 were then published on an online forum, and Rockstar Games confirmed the authenticity of the early footage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The leaked content suggested that Grand Theft Auto 6 would have the franchise\u2019s <\/span>first-ever female protagonist<\/span><\/a>, and be set in the Miami-inspired Vice City. The game will have a Latina woman and a white man as its two playable protagonists, <\/span>Bloomberg <\/span><\/i>reported<\/span><\/a>. The as-yet-unrevealed game is the follow-up to 2013\u2019s Grand Theft Auto 5, one of the most successful games of all time with <\/span>over 185 million copies sold<\/span><\/a> to date.<\/span><\/p>\n

The London jury found Kurtaj at fault for all 12 charges, Reuters <\/i>reported<\/a>, including six charges under Britain\u2019s Computer Misuse Act as well as three counts of blackmail and two counts of fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Kurtaj, who is an autistic person, did not appear in court due to a psychiatric evaluation that concluded he was unfit to stand for trial, the <\/span>BBC <\/span><\/i>reported<\/span><\/a>. Therefore, the court did not announce a \u201cguilty\u201d verdict, but instead found him legally responsible for the crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The teen duo were also accused of hacking Nvidia together, and the unnamed <\/span>17-year-old was convicted<\/span><\/a> for hacking Nvidia and committing fraud and blackmail after he stole approximately 1 terabyte of data from the tech hardware giant and held it for ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 17-year-old, whom the<\/span> BBC<\/span><\/i> reported<\/span><\/a> is also an autistic person, was found guilty of one count under the Computer Misuse Act, one count of fraud, and one count of blackmail for the Nvidia hack. He <\/span>was found not guilty for one count of blackmail and another under the Computer Misuse Act, as it relates to allegations that he had hacked EE parent company BT.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two young men worked as \u201c<\/span>key players<\/span><\/a>\u201d in the Lapsus$ group, which is believed to be an international organization of cyberattackers that, while loosely organized, possessed a deft ability to quickly hack into high-profile tech and gaming firms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lapsus$ members would often demand ransoms, send mass text messages with their demands, take over victims\u2019 computers and delete data in front of them, and publish various images \u201cto demonstrate their access,\u201d according to a U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) <\/span>report<\/span><\/a> into the group\u2019s activity from 2021 to 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While CISA called Lapsus$ \u201cunique for its effectiveness, speed, creativity, and boldness,\u201d it also noted that \u201cin some cases, attacks appeared to reflect a \u2018smash-and-grab\u2019 approach that seemed to prioritize speed over strategy and sometimes missed opportunities to extract higher-value data.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A London jury has found two teenagers responsible for numerous high-profile hacks as members of the Lapsus$ group, which carried out various attacks on Grand Theft Auto game publisher Rockstar Games, tech giant Nvidia, ride sharing service Uber, and British telecommunications company EE, among others. Both 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj and a 17-year-old male\u2014who was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-141362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146995,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141362\/revisions\/146995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}