{"id":108960,"date":"2023-07-17T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/grand-theft-auto-6-hacker-found-unfit-to-stand-trial\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T10:05:19","slug":"grand-theft-auto-6-hacker-discovered-unfit-to-face-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/grand-theft-auto-6-hacker-discovered-unfit-to-face-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grand Theft Auto 6&#8217; hacker discovered unfit to face trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The teenager accused of hacking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/brands\/rockstar-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rockstar Games<\/a> and leaking <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a><\/em> (<em>GTA 6<\/em>) footage has been deemed unfit to face trial, after being charged with 12 offences in relation to a string of hacks.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/grand-theft-auto-6-gameplay-videos-reportedly-leaked-3312289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 90 movies and screenshots from <em>GTA 6<\/em> surfaced on-line<\/a>.\u00a0 Rockstar Games confirmed the \u201cearly development footage\u201d had been \u201cillegally accessed and downloaded\u201d \u2014 and inside weeks, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/gta-6-hack-uk-police-confirm-charged-teenager-3316977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teenager in Oxfordshire was arrested in relation<\/a> to the hack.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj faces 12 offences, together with six expenses below the Computer Misuse Act, three blackmail expenses, and two counts of fraud (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/teen-hacked-uber-revolut-grand-theft-auto-maker-london-court-hears-2023-07-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters,<\/a> <\/em>by way of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-hacker-has-been-deemed-unfit-to-stand-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eurogamer<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While psychiatrists have discovered Kurtaj is unfit to face trial, Kurtaj is an alleged member of hacking group Lapsus$ and stands accused of hacking Revolut, Uber, Rockstar, and BT. It\u2019s alleged that Kurtaj additionally attacked BT and EE, and used Rockstar\u2019s personal Slack channel to threaten to launch G<em>rand Theft Auto 6<\/em>\u2018s supply code.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3408774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3408774\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3408774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Theft Auto 5. Credit: Rockstar Games.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour-400x254.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour-800x508.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour-696x442.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour-1392x884.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Grand-Theft-Auto-6-50-cent-rumour-1068x678.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3408774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Theft Auto 5. Credit: Rockstar Games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>While Kurtaj is suspected of appearing alone for the Rockstar, Uber and Revolut hacks, a 17-year-old who can&#8217;t be named is believed to have been concerned within the blackmailing of BT and EE.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claimed that each had been \u201ckey players\u201d in Lapsus$, and tried to blackmail BT and EE for $4million (\u00a33million). Meanwhile, Uber claimed their very own hack precipitated $3million (\u00a32.2million) in damages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/rockstar-says-gta-6-leak-is-legitimate-but-wont-cause-delays-3313112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back in September, Rockstar mentioned<\/a> it didn\u2019t \u201canticipate any disruption to [its] live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of [its] ongoing projects.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you all in this way,\u201d the corporate added. \u201cOur work on the next<em> Grand Theft Auto<\/em> game will continue as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of <em>GTA<\/em> writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/brands\/take-two-interactive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take-Two Interactive<\/a>, later described the leak as \u201cterribly unfortunate,\u201d and mentioned it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/gta-6-publisher-says-leak-wont-have-any-influence-on-development-3345012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wouldn&#8217;t have \u201cany influence\u201d on improvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The teenager accused of hacking Rockstar Games and leaking Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) footage has been deemed unfit to face trial, after being charged with 12 offences in relation to a string of hacks. In September 2022, over 90 movies and screenshots from GTA 6 surfaced on-line.\u00a0 Rockstar Games confirmed the \u201cearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}