A teenage hacker who is probably going related to the group answerable for the GTA 6 leaks has been arrested in Oxfordshire. Metropolis of London Police introduced that the 17-year-old was taken into custody September 22 as a part of an investigation with the UK’s Nationwide Cyber Crime Unit. Further sources declare this suspect is the supply of the leaked Grand Theft Auto IV info that grew to become public this week.
City Police say the suspect remained in custody September 23, however haven’t launched a reputation or every other figuring out info. Police additionally haven’t positively related this arrest to the breach at Rockstar Video games or the hacking group Lapsus$, which is believed to be accountable each for the Rockstar breach and a current breach of Uber.
California-based journalist Matthew Keys has said that sources have knowledgeable him that this arrest is certainly associated to these breaches, however police declined to verify this when contacted by Reuters.
Keys also says {that a} supply tells him this investigation was “finished in live performance with an investigation carried out by the FBI”.
Rockstar, for its half, has not made an official touch upon the arrest. The corporate has stated it was “disillusioned” by the leak of the footage, however that it doesn’t consider the leak will have an effect on the event of Grand Theft Auto IV.
