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GTA 6: The 18-year-old hacker who exposed everything will not be prosecuted

GTA 6: The 18-year-old hacker who exposed everything will not be prosecuted

In September last year, one of the biggest leaks ever in gaming history happened when a 17-year-old hacker from the UK hacked into its infrastructure. rock games He revealed gameplay footage that was in development for the highly anticipated game GTA6.

The teen was rumored to be a member of the well-known hacking group Lapsus$ and was arrested again in 2022, for hacking Microsoft and Nvidia infrastructure.

Ultimately, the now adult Arion Corta, who was on trial for 12 offenses, including three counts of racketeering, two counts of fraud and six counts under the Computer Misuse Act, He was found unfit to stand trial.

According to a media report ReutersHacker has it “They were deemed unfit by psychiatrists to stand trial” The jury will not decide whether he is guilty, but whether he has committed the acts or not. Cortag had previously pleaded guilty to one count of fraud and two counts of offense under the Computer Misuse Act, as well as breach of bail terms.

For the record, the massive GTA 6 leak included more than 90 screenshots and videos. Cortag had obtained it through Slack, which Rockstar uses for its internal communications, where the hacker sent all of its employees a threatening message demanding a ransom so that the source code would not be leaked.

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