Police Arrest Alleged Grand Theft Auto 6 Hacker

17 years old?
Impressive

Wow that’s about 40 minutes drive from me
I must live in a dodgy area 😂😂😂
Also I sometimes go to work there.

If Rockstar can get hacked by a 17 year old, then their security is weak. They should offer the hacker a job to find their weaknesses in order to prevent such things happening

Considering the young lad if he did hack Rockstar
So maybe a smart chap.
Did he not have the knowledge to cover his tracks etc.

@Dezzy70 we all leave tracks on the internet. A VPN doesn’t hide your activity, it disassociates it from you. But your activity is still leaving footprints out there.

An elite hacker would have a better way of going undetected. But clearly there are limits.

Also, this kid released the data wanting payback. He tried to ransom it, released videos for clout etc. It becomes a lot harder to hide then.

I don’t understand these people. They’re smart enough to be able to do this but stupid enough to actually go ahead and do it.

was it worth it? to lose your life just to hack into a gamine company

Seems a bit overkill to me. All he did was almost promote a game early. He hasnt actuall killed anyone or personally injured anyone. It is only a game when it comes down to it.

@BBB I totally hear ya on the age and not having enough life experiences. My oldest is 17 and of course like most that age, thinks he knows everything. Never thinks of consequences. Doesn’t believe anything bad will happen to him. The hacker is probably very much the same way.

@BBB
As crimes go. Should be pretty low down in priority.
It won't be because people think there more important then they actually are and will no doubt like to make an example of him. But he hasn't actually injured anyone. Or really made anyone lose money. Just mainly made the security look *****.
But still there other bigger nasty black hats out there that hold the NHS to Ransom, completely ruin peoples bank accounts. And other such nefarious deeds. Who generally go un punished.

@Techno92LFC
It's called being a teenager... they are often incredibly smart, yet also do the dumbest ***** imaginable (speaking from personal memory 😆).

@antstephenson Yeh that’s a fair enough point. Think we’ve all been there and done stupid things lol. Just this being a larger mistake than many people would make.

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@BBB yeah I think most of us were like that or felt like that at 17. I didn’t really get into trouble at that age. I had an older brother who did and I would see how my abusive father handled him and didn’t want him to come at me the same way.

Part of me is worried for this kid. What he did was wrong, but I can’t help thinking like a parent. I still see how immature my 17 year old is and how he’s not ready for the real world. They probably will use this kid as an example and try him like an adult. Too many of these companies are getting hacked in recent years. So I can definitely see them going right for him harder than usual. I feel bad because our brains are not fully developed till the age 25, but he did the crime and now must face the consequences.

@scarecrowknife yeah I'd much rather all the elites involved in the Epstein scandal would be strung up but we all know the law doesn't apply to everyone

Stupid kid. Talented. But stupid.

The jokes write themselves with this story.

You do the crime you pay the price. 17 is old enough to know right from wrong.

@Dezzy70 These people usually aren't hackers. Most of them run scripts someone else made that they find on the web. We used to call these people script kiddies. The person doesn't have to be smart, I'm not saying the person isn't smart. I just highly doubt the person did it by themselves, in such case they would have known how to cover their tracks better.