Highlights
- A teenage hacker named Arion Kurtaj used an Amazon Fire Stick to breach Rockstar Games and leak over 90 early development videos of GTA 6 online.
- Kurtaj was caught in a hotel room in England and used the hotel room's Amazon Fire Stick to gain online access and carry out the attack.
- Kurtaj and an unnamed 17-year-old are part of an online group called Lapsus$, known for attacking major tech companies. Rockstar Games may continue to have difficulty keeping the lid on GTA 6's development due to the large amount of hype around the title.
New details about the Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker have been released, revealing that the teenager who committed the crime used a common and unexpected device in order to hack into Rockstar Games. The teenage hacker is also responsible for breaching other well-known companies such as Nvidia Corp and Uber.
It would be hard to find a more anticipated video game for this decade than Grand Theft Auto 6. Most fans of the Grand Theft Auto series are practically salivating over any little detail of the upcoming third-person action title, including leaked images that Rockstar Games doesn’t want the public to see. Recently, a teenage hacker named Arion Kurtaj gave many fans what they were looking for by leaking over 90 early development videos of GTA 6 online. He also threatened Rockstar Games, saying that he would release the game’s source code if the studio didn’t give him what he wanted. The 18-year-old hacker was caught red-handed and is currently awaiting his sentencing. While he waits, new details about how he managed to pull off this operation have reached the public.
According to a report from the BBC, the GTA6 hacker Arion Kurtaj used an Amazon Fire Stick to break into the Rockstar Games database. Even more unbelievable is that the attack itself was carried out in a hotel room in England, where the police were holding him after hacking into Nvidia. While being detained, Kurtaj was unable to go online using any traditional means, so he used the Amazon Fire Stick that was connected to the TV in the hotel room for online access. He then got his hands on a keyboard, mouse, and a smartphone to pull off one of the most damaging leaks in video game history.
Kurtaj was not the only Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker, as an unnamed 17-year-old teenager was also involved in the crime. The two of them are part of an online group of digital terrorists known as Lapsus$, a group that’s famous for attacking major tech companies like Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Samsung.
The release of Grand Theft Auto 6 is a big deal in the world of gaming, and it looks like Rockstar Games will have a tough time keeping the lid on its development. Meanwhile, other strange events keep happening around the game, like the two crashers who rushed the stage at Gamescom demanding the release of GTA 6. With high anticipation from fans and so much money on the line, Rockstar Games will surely take any controversies around the game seriously.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is in development.