British authorities believe they have caught the hacker behind the massive leak regarding the upcoming GTA VI. Police in London have confirmed the arrest of a 17-year-old for a hacking incident. Several sources claim that the crime the teenager is accused of is related to an intrusion on Rockstar Games and possibly Uber Technologies. Very quickly, with the help of the FBI, this teen was targeted. Police focused on him after finding similarities between the Rockstar Games and Uber attacks and several other attacks that occurred between last year and the beginning of this year against technology companies like Microsoft, Okta and Nvidia.
GTA VI: the return of LAPSUS$?
Even if the information is very light at the moment, it seems that the main suspect is not the only one involved in this story. If we go back a little in the last few months, the hacker group LAPSUS$, which had been in the news, had also been located around London. The group then conveniently announced that it was “going on vacation” for a while. Rockstar and Uber could have been victims of the same group. Lapsus$’s Telegram account never completely disappeared from view. On a few occasions in recent months, messages were posted on the channel before being very quickly deleted, leaving many observers puzzled. In the previous investigation, a teenager was also identified as the leader of the LAPSUS$ group, but this identification came more from denunciations from competing groups than from irrefutable evidence from the authorities. It is in his house that the authorities have gone to type these last hours…
