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 linked to an investigation into the LAPSUS$ hacking gang, which has hacked the likes of Microsoft, Ubisoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Okta.
Most not too long ago, LAPSUS$ has tied to information breaches at Uber, 2K and Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Video games.
The Rockstar information breach noticed greater than 90 movies of footage from the as-yet-unreleased “Grand Theft Auto 6” recreation 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 response to a tweet from Metropolis of London police.
The point out of breaching bail circumstances is attention-grabbing, as a result of it does quite recommend that the person arrested was already identified to police, and was awaiting a court docket listening to.
As I detailed again in March, an adolescent (then reported as being 16 years previous) 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 “a variety of time on the pc.”
Different hackers had been stated to have “doxxed” the boy, revealing his title, handle, and social media footage 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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