• Hackers The brains of Lapsus$ is a 16-year-old boy who lives with his mother in Oxford

  • GTA6 They steal and publish 90 videos of the expected Grand Theft Auto 6

The London police have arrested a young man who could be the author of the theft of data from the offices of

Rockstar

, the developer of the well-known Grand Theft Auto franchise.

It is about a 17-year-old boy who several security experts believe could also be behind the recent attacks on Uber and another video game company, 2K.

Last week, a hacker gained access to Rockstar's servers using social engineering techniques.

He posed as an employee of a startup interested in hiring a developer who worked externally for the company.

As part of the alleged job offer, he sent her a file infected with a virus that allowed her to break into the company's internal network.

The hacker then published in a forum

90 videos of the development of the next installment of the saga

, which will possibly be known as GTA 6, and claimed to also be in possession of the source code of the previous installment, the successful GTA V, and part of the code of this new version.

This is one of the biggest attacks in history on a video game development company.

One would have to go back to the beginning of the 21st century to find something similar.

In 2003, a German hacker managed to get hold of a near-final copy of the long-awaited game Half-Life 2 by sneaking into the servers of the developer, Valve.

The London police have not yet confirmed that the detainee was responsible for these attacks, but several computer security experts point to

clear links between the assaults on Uber, Rockstar and 2K

.

The attacker, in fact, boasted in a forum of having been the person behind the attack on Uber, which forced the company to paralyze its operations for hours just a few weeks ago.

The hacker publicly presented himself as an 18-year-old, but if he was the same person, he would have lied about his age.

Everything indicates that he could be one of the leaders of the well-known group of hackers

Lapsus$

, which in recent years has put large technology companies such as Nvidia or Microsoft on the ropes.

The police already had him on file.

Last March he captured him along with two other members of Lapsus $, but he was released on bail for being a minor.

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