GTA VI Hacker Gets Indefinite Hospital Sentence, he has been sentenced to life in prison until he is no longer judged a danger to others.
The hacker who leaked Grand Theft Auto VI in-development videos last year is reportedly being held in a guarded hospital indefinitely. According to BBC News, an 18-year-old teenager known as Arion Kurtaj, who was a member of the notorious cybercrime gang Lapsus$, was judged incompetent to stand trial due to an acute autism diagnosis.
So, based on a mental examination, the jury was asked to judge if the terrible conduct was committed with criminal intent, resulting in the argument that the accused was ‘strongly motivated’ to return to crime. As a result, he has been sentenced to life in prison until he is no longer judged a danger to others.
Kurtaj was arrested in September 2022 on suspicion of the Rockstar Games hack, for which he pled not guilty and stood prosecution for the offenses perpetrated by his cybercrime gang against Nvidia and Uber.
“The jury was told that while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, he continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack,” the report states. according to the states report.
He appears to have pulled out the hack in a hotel room, using an Amazon Firestick, a television, and a smartphone. (His laptop was supposedly taken during a prior breach attack.) He brazenly promised to reveal the GTA 6 source code within the next 24 hours unless Rockstar negotiated with him using the Telegram messaging service after gaining access to the company’s Slack group.
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While it was not officially stated, Rockstar may have refused his requests, resulting in Kurtaj releasing over 90 footage from the highly anticipated video game into the wilds, in what may be considered one of the largest leaks in gaming history.
The first trailer for GTA VI, which showed off some in-engine footage and a peek of our two characters, Lucia and Jason, was released earlier this month.
That video received 62 million views in just 13 hours, prompting Kurtaj’s defense team to argue that the leaks barely impacted the game’s success and caused no severe harm.
However, Rockstar claimed that the leak ruined hundreds of hours of production time and harmed team morale, resulting in a $5 million recovery bill. In addition to Kurtaj, another anonymous 17-year-old youth was found guilty of participating in the Nvidia cyberattack and stealing cryptocurrency.
Insomniac Games, another AAA game studio, was recently victimized by a ransomware attack, with the responsible cybercrime group releasing 1.67TB of confidential data into the wild, including a fully functional build of the upcoming Wolverine game, emails between employees and their personal information, presentations on future release slate, sales figures, and more. Game creators all over the world have come together to offer their love and support for those who have been affected, while also condemning hacks that could jeopardize people’s lives.
