After the massive data leak on GTA 6 in 2022, the British authorities revealed the identity of one of the alleged hackers a few days ago. The least we can say is that we did not expect that.
Impossible to miss the event if you are one of those who have been waiting for GTA 6 for years. As of September 2022, 90 gameplay videos of the video game are released on the web. A huge blow for Take-Two Interactive, owner of the franchise, whose share price fell drastically on the stock market following the hack. The group behind the attacks is quickly identified. It is Lapsus$which is assumed to be based in UK and Brazil.
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Take-Two and Rockstar Games, in charge of the development of GTA 6, are not the only victims. At the time, Lapsus$ also hacked Uber, Nvidia, BT-Group (the largest British telecommunications operator) or even EE, a mobile operator. Today we learn more about one of the hackers responsible for the GTA 6 leaks. his identity and how he disseminated information about the game.
A hacker who leaked information about GTA 6 is not at all as imagined
His name is Arion Kurjat and he has 18 years old. The young man is discontinued in January 2022 following the attacks on BT Group and EE, but is released under supervision. That does not prevent him from hacking Nvidia in stride and being arrested again. As his personal information has been leaked by rival hackers, the authorities transfer him for his safety to a hotel room with prohibition to connect to the Internet.
Completely ignoring the injunctions, Kurjat takes the firestick amazon plugged into the bedroom TV to access the Cloud. Using a keyboard, a mouse and a smartphone he just bought, he infiltrates the servers of Rockstar Games and recover data from GTA 6. He is of course apprehended again.
Arion Kurjat did not act alone. He has the support of the Lapsus$ group, but “works” above all with another 17-year-old pirate, whose identity has not been revealed in view of his age. Both suffer from autistic disorders, and the justice declared them unfit to stand trial. The sentence of the two young pirates has not yet been pronounced.
Source : BBC
