A 17-year-old Oxfordshire kid was detained on suspicion of hacking, according to information released by the City of London Police on Friday.
According to experts, the recent security breaches at Uber and Rockstar Games may have something to do with the arrest.
On September 18, a cyber threat actor identified as the 'teapotuberhacker' claimed to have hacked Rockstar Games, the company behind the well-known and contentious Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise, in a post on GTAForums.com. Teapotuberhacker claimed to have taken 90 movies of alpha material and the source code for Grand Theft Auto VI and its predecessor GTA V from Rockstar in that post, which has since been removed.
Notably, a 17-year-old Oxford boy was among the seven minors who were detained. The Oxford teenager was detained after other hackers posted his name and address online. The boy had two internet aliases: 'Breachbase' and 'White'. According to the reports, the boy had earned about $14 million via data theft.
Further information concerning the inquiry was kept under wraps by the UK authorities.
Seven adolescents were detained and later freed by City of London police in connection with a probe into the Lapsus$ hacking organization this spring.
Uber released more information regarding the latest security breach earlier this week. According to the firm, the threat actor responsible for the intrusion is connected to the LAPSUS$ hacker organization.
Flashpoint, a security company, presented a report of the Grand Theft Auto VI data breach this week and disclosed that the name of the hacker responsible for the two attacks had been made public on a dark web forum.
The forum administrator claimed that teapotuberhacker was the same guy who had allegedly hacked Microsoft and owned Doxbin in the debate, which was titled 'The Person Who Hacked GTA 6 and Uber is Arion,' according to the story that was published by FlashPoint.
If these claims are true, which is not entirely apparent, it will assist in explaining the most recent incident that law police conducted.
