The City of London Police, assisted by the UK's National Cyber Crime Unit, arrested a teenager in Oxford on suspicion of hacking.
Matthew Keys wrote that a teenager was arrested over the Grand Theft Auto 6 hack that leaked early footage and threatened to leak the game's source code. The hacker is said to have claimed responsibility for the hack of the company.
The hack was likely conducted by LAPSUS$, according to the report. The hacking group has been linked to several hacks of major companies, including Microsoft and Samsung.
The FBI and London police are expected to give more information later today. There isn't much more to say about the person in custody, though it was previously reported that researchers tracked a string of hacks connected to the teen hacker group LAPSUS$ to a then-16-year-old living in his mother's house in the UK. According to the report, this UK teenager was connected with a person in Brazil.
In April, London police arrested two other teenagers connected to LAPSUS$, but that didn't stop the group from attacking major tech companies and governments. Not willing to let the data theft be reward enough, LAPSUS$ hackers have taunted their victims through internal messengers, through Slack and even joined Zoom calls to insult the people trying to repair the damage caused by the hacks.
When we hear more, we will update this post.
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