British police have charged the 17-year-old youth they arrested final week in Oxfordshire.
As I famous on the time, the arrest was extensively rumoured to be related to an investigation into the LAPSUS$ hacking gang, which has hacked the likes of Microsoft, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Okta.
Most just lately, LAPSUS$ has tied to knowledge breaches at Uber, 2K and Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Video games.
The Rockstar knowledge breach noticed greater than 90 movies of footage from the as-yet-unreleased “Grand Theft Auto 6” sport leaked onto the web by a hacker calling themselves “TeaPot.”
{The teenager} arrested in Oxfordshire has been charged with two offences beneath the pc misuse act, and two counts of breaching bail circumstances, in keeping with a tweet from Metropolis of London police.
The point out of breaching bail circumstances is attention-grabbing, as a result of it does quite counsel that the person arrested was already recognized to police, and was already awaiting a courtroom listening to.
As I detailed again in March, a youngster (then reported as being 16 years outdated) was arrested in Oxford following a string of hacks by the LAPSUS$ group.
On the time, BBC Information reported that the boy was autistic, and that his father claimed he spent “plenty of time on the pc.”
Different hackers had been stated to have “doxxed” the boy, revealing his identify, deal with, and social media photos following a falling-out.
Might the 16-year-old arrested in Oxford in March now be the 17-year-old arrested in Oxfordshire and charged with breaching his bail circumstances?
That’s a rhetorical query… for now.
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