Game News GTA 6: the leaker behind the Rockstar game leaks has appeared in court!
Ten days after hundreds of GTA VI-related videos were leaked, the cyber attacker has reportedly been arrested and appeared in London Youth Court.
Summary
- GTA VI: one of the heists of the century?
- The young man pleads not guilty, remanded in custody
GTA VI: one of the heists of the century?
Last week, Rockstar Games suffered a massive cyberattack. The studio behind the saga Red Dead Redemption or even the Grand Theft Auto has had hundreds of videos of the game GTA 6 stolen, a video game that is probably one of the most anticipated titles of the coming years. The hacker responsible for the attack also stole the codes sources of this sixth opus while claiming that its production cost would reach the two billion dollars : it would be a crazy sum never seen in the video game industry.
In short, it is one of the heists of the century which mobilizes the bench and the back bench of the London police especially as the person in charge would only be 16 years old and would also be the author of similar break-ins with Microsoft, Nvidia or even that of Uber which coordinates its efforts with the FBI to find him. Last week is the london city police who confirms having arrested a 17-year-old teenager. It was as part of an investigation by the cybercrime unit of the British National Crime Agency, collaborating with the FBI, that the young man was arrested.
The young man pleads not guilty, remanded in custody
However, there has been something new since September 24 and the appearance of the young man at the Courthouse. It’s the media Eurogamer which retrieved, in an article published yesterday, a statement from the London Police Cyber Crime Unit which formalizes its current status:
The 17-year-old who appeared in Highbury Corner Children’s Court on September 24 pleaded guilty to breaching bail and not guilty to computer misuse. The teenager was remanded to a youth detention centre.” – City of London Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan
We will therefore have to wait before having the end of this affair. In the wake of the cyberattack, Rockstar had reacted by indicating to be disappointed but that these leaks should not impact or delay the development of Grand Theft Auto VI.