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Teenage hacker suspected of hacking and leaking GTA 6 game data arrested for censorship – XFastest Hong Kong

Earlier, Rockstar’s unreleased game “GTA6” was leaked with a large number of game screens, and even more than 10,000 stroke codes were released. Due to the huge amount of various information revealed in this leak, it is considered to be the biggest leak in the history of the game industry.

The leak turned out to be linked to a hacker organization, and the hackers suspected of having invaded Rockstar have been arrested and investigated by the British police. According to the London police, on the night of September 22, local time, the British NCCU arrested a 17-year-old boy suspected of hacking in Oxfordshire. It is reported that the hacker arrested this time is also suspected of hacking Uber.

According to previous information, the person who attacked Rockstar was Tea Pot, the head of the Lapsus$ network hacking team, and people familiar with the matter said that the hackers arrested this time are connected to this hacking team . Lapsus$ has been involved in several hacking incidents since the end of last year, mainly to steal confidential data and attempt to extort money by threatening to leak it, from companies including Microsoft, NVIDIA and Ubisoft. And UBER has just said that it was recently attacked by Lapsus$ and is now in contact with the FBI and the US Department of Justice.