London police have arrested an adolescent on suspicion of hacking offenses, authorities mentioned on Friday. The 17-year-old suspect was arrested in Oxfordshire, England as a part of an ongoing investigation with the federal government’s Nationwide Cyber Crime Unit. Police declined to substantiate every other particulars concerning the arrest and investigation — simply that the suspect is in custody.
That mentioned, the circumstances comply with earlier arrests linked to a hacker group that’s mentioned to be liable for breaches at Uber and Rockstar Video games, the latter of which led to leaked footage of the in-development Grand Theft Auto 6 revealed over the weekend.
On the night of Thursday 22 September 2022, the Metropolis of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking, as a part of an investigation supported by the @NCA_UK’s Nationwide Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).
He stays in police custody. pic.twitter.com/Zfa3OlDR6J
— Metropolis of London Police (@CityPolice) September 23, 2022
Polygon has additionally reached out to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Division of Justice, because the U.S. authorities can also be investigating the Uber hacking incident. Neither Rockstar Video games nor Uber responded to a request for remark Friday morning.
Uber believes a global hacker group calling itself Lapsus$ was liable for the breach there. In March, London police arrested seven folks in reference to that group, considered one of them an adolescent from Oxfordshire county, about an hour to the west of London. Then in April, two youngsters, aged 16 and 17, had been charged in connection to the hacker group, and the launched on bail. Lapsus$ can also be suspected to have accessed techniques at Microsoft, T-Cell, Ubisoft, and the safety firm Okta.
The Rockstar Video games hacker, after publishing almost an hour’s price of footage of the in-development sport, claimed duty for the Uber breach. With the Rockstar Video games leak, the hacker additionally claimed to have obtained supply code for Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA 6, in addition to a take a look at construct of the in-development sport. Rockstar confirmed the unprecedented hack on Monday, however famous that there could be no disruption to its providers or growth of GTA 6.
“We not too long ago suffered a community intrusion wherein an unauthorized third celebration illegally accessed and downloaded confidential info from our techniques, together with early growth footage for the subsequent Grand Theft Auto,” a studio consultant posted to Twitter.