UK Police Arrests 17-Year-Old Believed To Be Behind GTA 6, Uber Hacks

A 17-year-old boy in Oxfordshire was arrested on suspicion of hacking by the City of London Police on Thursday, as part of an investigation supported by the UKโ€™s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU). The suspect remains in police custody.

The news about the arrest was released by the City of London Police through their official Twitter handle.

 

While the city police department has not released any further information about the person in custody, popular ex-Reuters journalist Matthew Keysย wroteย based on unknown sources that the 17-year-oldโ€™s arrest was “related to intrusion on Rockstar Games and possibly Uber Technologies” and “was done in concert with an investigation conducted by the FBI, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.”

The arrested teenager is believed to be connected to a group identifying itself as “Lapsus$,” a group that organizes primarily via Telegram channels. He is the same teenager who was arrested in March 2022 by the City of London Police for generating some $14 million (ยฃ10.6m) from cybercrime.

 

The news of the arrest follows after Rockstar Gamesย confirmedย last week that an “unauthorised third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information” from its systems.

Shortly after the GTA 6 leak, Uber tooย released a statement regarding a recent cybersecurity incident of its own and acknowledged that the potential links leaked could be valid, adding that Lapsus$ (though this is not confirmed) may have been behind both hacks.

โ€œWe believe that this attacker or attackers are affiliated with a hacking group called Lapsus which has been increasingly active over the last year or so. This group typically uses similar techniques to target technology companies, and in 2022 alone has breached Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia, and Okta, among others,โ€ Uber explainedย in a security update.

Uber said that it is working in close coordination with the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice on this matter.

Kavita Iyer
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