The 18-year-old British man behind some of the biggest hacks in history, including one in which much of GTA 6 footage was uploaded to the internet, will spend the rest of his life in hospital after a judge ruled he remains a high risk. It turns out. Public life. British teenager Arion Courtaj broke into Rockstar Games under police protection using only an Amazon Firestick, a mobile phone and a TV from the Travelodge hotel.
A member of an online gang called Lapsus$, Mr. Kurtaj was involved in numerous high-profile hacks that resulted in more than $10 million in cumulative damages to companies such as Uber and Nvidia. The judge ruled that despite being diagnosed with autism, he needed to be hospitalized indefinitely because of his extreme aptitude for hacking and willingness to repeat the crime.
Rockstar Games representatives said in court that the hack cost the company at least $5 million in damages and cost employees thousands of hours to recover. Hacking is once again a hot topic in the industry this week after Insomniac Games suffered a devastating ransomware attack that resulted in terabytes of confidential company information being uploaded online.