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16-year-old British teenager named mastermind behind the hacking of Samsung and Microsoft

Report by Tribunnews Reporter, Nur Febriana Trinugraheni

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, Jakarta – In recent months the Lapsus$ hacking group has reportedly hacked into several large companies, such as MicrosoftNvidia, Samsung than Ubisoft.

A teenager from England named as operations leader hack this.

Reporting from the Theverge.com site, Thursday (24/3/2022) the authorities identified 7 accounts connected to the hackers.

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One of the accounts belongs to teenager from Brazil and other accounts belong to teenager 16-year-old from England who was named the leader hack this.

This British teenager, lives with his mother near the University of Oxford. According to a report from news site Bloomberg, they have visited the alleged leader’s house hack this and try to ask for information from the mother of the hacker.

But mother teenager The alleged hacker, declined to provide any information about his son and said the matter was a matter for law enforcement.

This teenager, indeed has not been legally processed by the authorities, and the research team has not been able to really link teenager it with action hack the Lapsus$ group.

In addition to two teenagers from England and Brazil, Bloomberg reported that one member of the Lapsus$ group appeared to be a skilled hacker because he had fooled the research team into thinking the hacking was done using an automated system.

Also read: US Seizes $3.6 Billion of Cryptocurrencies Related to Hacking

Meanwhile, according to cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, there are core Lapsus$ members who use the terms ‘Oklaqq’ and ‘WhiteDoxbin’, by buying a site called Doxbin.

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