The hacker who claimed work for this weekend's enormous leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 material is present being investigated by the FBI.

The aforesaid attacker besides said they were down past week's high-profile hack of thrust app Uber, which has provided an update connected its ain investigations.

"There are besides reports implicit the play that this aforesaid histrion breached video crippled shaper Rockstar Games," Uber wrote successful a newly-updated blog. "We are successful adjacent coordination with the FBI and US Department of Justice connected this substance and volition proceed to enactment their efforts."

Uber said it believed the idiosyncratic liable to beryllium "affiliated with a hacking radical called Lapsus$, which has been progressively progressive implicit the past twelvemonth oregon so" and which has likewise breached a database of different exertion companies this twelvemonth specified arsenic Microsoft, Samsung and Nvidia.

Yesterday, Rockstar issued its ain connection connected the hack, and admitted it had suffered a "network intrusion" which had led to the leaked accusation being taken from its servers.

The GTA shaper said it was "extremely disappointed", but that determination would beryllium nary "long-term effect" connected development. No unrecorded services, specified arsenic Grand Theft Auto Online, were interrupted.

In March this year, BBC News reported connected a 16-year-old from Oxford known online arsenic "White" oregon "Breachbase", who was accused of being 1 of the Lapsus$ group's leaders.

"White"'s existent individuality was publically identified by different hackers, and was 1 of 7 arrested by City of London Police - earlier each were yet released nether investigation.

"I had ne'er heard astir immoderate of this until recently," the 16-year-old's begetter said astatine the time. "He's ne'er talked astir immoderate hacking, but helium is precise bully connected computers and spends a batch of clip connected the computer. I ever thought helium was playing games.

"We're going to effort to halt him from going connected computers."