The British NCCU arrested a 17-year-old boy on the evening of September 22.
He is suspected of being the well-known hacker who broke the Uber system and leaked massive amounts of content from the yet-to-be-announced GTA 6.
This was not only the biggest leak in GTA history, but also in the history of the gaming industry. Lapsus$, a hacking group, is responsible for everything.
The arrested hacker is a member of the internationally renowned hacking group Lapsus$. He goes by the moniker teapotuberhacker and is well-known in the world of cybercrime. In addition to Rockstar, the group has repeatedly invaded tech behemoths such as Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and Nvidia.
The hacker group Lapsus$ stole NVIDIA’s 1TB data in March 2022. Following that, it proposed that GPU drivers for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems become fully open source by the end of March 4. If not, they threatened to make the information public.
Lapsus$ attacked Samsung the same month (again). The hacking group released 190GB of stolen partial source code from Samsung servers.
In general, March was a very productive month for Lapsus$. In addition to the aforementioned hacks, Microsoft confirmed that this hacking group had gained limited access to the company’s systems. Lapsus$ previously claimed to have successfully hacked into Microsoft’s systems and obtained source code for the voice assistants Bing and Cortana.
Simultaneously, Apple Insider reported that the Apple Health source code used to create the Globant “Earn Your Apple Watch” project may have been stolen. This was the work of Lapsus$.
Previously, Uber stated that it was in contact with the FBI and the US Department of Justice. Though Rockstar has not issued a similar statement, there is every reason to believe that it was also cooperating with the FBI.
