Today, London City Police announced they had arrested a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire Thursday evening. While the constabulary person yet to corroborate why, it’s been reported that the teen was arrested successful transportation with the caller Uber and Grand Theft Auto VI leaks. The fishy remains successful City Police custody astatine this time.

As reported by The Desk and newsman Matthew Keys, the apprehension of the suspected 17-year-old GTA hacker by constabulary successful the United Kingdom was portion of an probe being conducted by the FBI and the UK’s Cyber Crime Unit. It had antecedently been reported that the FBI was apt looking into the caller hacks astatine Uber and Rockstar Games.

A root told The Desk that the teen is being held connected galore charges, including conspiracy to onslaught astatine slightest 2 antithetic machine systems.

It’s believed that the teenage hacker arrested Thursday evening successful Oxfordshire is connected to the hacker radical “Laspus$.” This radical of hackers is allegedly besides progressive with high-profile integer intrusions astatine different ample companies including Uber, Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia, and Okta. The radical archetypal showed up successful 2021, hacking Brazil’s Ministry of Health. It was thought the radical had gone inactive, but earlier this period it allegedly ramped up its activities again and targeted Uber and Rockstar Games.

The Grand Theft Auto VI leak that occurred implicit the weekend was 1 of the largest video crippled leaks successful history. 90 video files showcasing aboriginal improvement footage of the adjacent GTA game, which is assumed to beryllium GTA VI, were posted connected the GTA Forums and rapidly dispersed crossed the internet. The footage seemed to corroborate erstwhile reports and rumors that GTA VI would beryllium acceptable successful Vice City and would prima 2 antithetic characters, a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like transgression couple.

On Monday, September 19, pursuing the leak, Rockstar Games confirmed that idiosyncratic had “illegally” gained entree to its files and shared them online. It besides stated that this leak would not dilatory down accumulation connected the crippled and that it planned to uncover it successful a much authoritative mode soon.