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UK police confirmed they filed a complaint against a teenager arrested on hacking charges, which is reportedly linked to a recent GTA 6 and Uber data breach.
City of London police said on Saturday that the 17-year-old, who was arrested Thursday in Oxfordshire, was charged with two counts of bail violation and two of computer misuse.
He appeared before the Highbury Corner Youth Court on Saturday 24th September.
Although police have not commented on whether the arrest is related to this month’s Rockstar Games data breach, reporter Matthew Keyes cited sources that the teenager, referred to simply as “AK” due to his age, was arrested in connection with this hack and another Uber hack.
The teenager is said to be involved in a group called Lapsus $ and was arrested earlier this year for violating Microsoft and Nvidia.
The arrest came after an investigation by US federal law enforcement, who, along with their counterparts in the UK, identified AK as a suspect in both attacks. A law enforcement source said at least two other people are believed to be involved in the attacks on Rockstar and Uber and other arrests are pending.
Anonymous last week posted on the GTA Forums website more than an hour of video footage of the development of Grand Theft Auto 6, in what is likely to be one of the biggest data breaches in the gaming industry.
He claimed to have received the data breach through an internal Slack channel and claimed to also be behind Uber’s recent data breach which also focused on Slack.
While it’s not yet confirmed whether the attacker actually hacked GTA and Uber, the latter released a statement Monday admitting a potential connection.
Uber said it believes the attacker (or attackers) are connected to the hacker group Lapsus $, which has become increasingly active over the past year. This group of hackers is believed to be responsible for a number of cyber attacks against major tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Samsung and Vodaphone. On Monday, Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two, publicly acknowledged the loss of GTA and said he “took steps to isolate and contain this incident”.
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