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.

Geez not much of a hacker if he didn't know the cheat code to remove wanted levels or I guess being online he would have called Lester.

Mind you I expect he will need to use the pc cheat code LAWYERUP in his current predicament but I don't suppose the process will be as easy as it is in the game.

@Kienda Agree Just knowing the technical skills to do this is only a small part

A lot of these folks are caught because of ego and I guess being 17 not having enough life experiences to know when to shut the hell up and keep a low profile.

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.

@EvilSilentFrame To be fair at that age I was the same too.

Lucky for me the lessons that taught me otherwise while difficult at the time didn't wreck my life.

I am not sure this hacker will feel the same if he gets the book thrown at him.

@scarecrowknife what he did was illegal and he broke the law. He was also stupid enough to get caught and will have to face the consequences of his actions.

It's going to be a tough life lesson for him to learn actions have consequences and illegal actions are going to wreck your immediate future. Hopefully he will learn and have a chance to turn his life around.

@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 😆).

@scarecrowknife you and I can think what we like it's not us that decides the severity of the offence.

Also just because others do worse that doesn't excuse or absolve anyone for lessor offences.

At 17 he can be held responsible for his crimes (as is anyone over the age of 10 iirc.) Though not considered an adult until 18 in the UK he is still old enough to be responsible for his actions. It will be for the courts to decide on what the consequences are.

@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.

@themightyant inc recruit

@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.

@EvilSilentFrame Yeah I get that too and I feel sorry for him to a degree as well. No parent would want this for their child. Though it's a cliché you do have to let them make mistakes. While you hope they are small ones and they will learn before really putting their foot in it that isn't always the case, sadly.

At 17 he still has a lot of life ahead of him. Even if the next few years might be a bit rough (to put it mildly) he still has time to change his direction and have a good life (whatever that might be for him.)

@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.