{"id":378690,"date":"2022-09-24T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=378690"},"modified":"2022-09-24T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:06:18","slug":"grand-theft-auto-uk-police-arrest-suspected-gta-6-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/grand-theft-auto-uk-police-arrest-suspected-gta-6-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto: UK Police Arrest Suspected GTA 6 Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young hacker, who is thought to be behind the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA)<\/a> VI was arrested in London on 22 September.<\/p>\n

The suspect is a 17-year-old who goes by the username ‘TeaPot’ and purportedly posted early-in-development, pre-alpha gameplay footage of Rockstar Games’ highly anticipated new game.<\/p>\n

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GTA is one of the most popular gaming franchises ever; Rockstar Games has had a reputation of complete secrecy with its projects over the last two decades; and fans have been dying for a new GTA game for nearly a decade now, which is why the leak has set social media abuzz. Regardless, the gamer community is thrilled to know that a new GTA game is in the works.<\/p>\n\t\t

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However, Rockstar Games did not want to make the announcement in this fashion. The game developers were devastated to learn that a youngster had managed to hack into their servers and post over 90 early-in-development, pre-alpha gameplay videos online.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the videos went viral all over the world, prompting Rockstar Games to take action.<\/p>\n

It was learned that the boy is a member of the infamous hacker group Lapsus$. It had a 105-page internal PDF file on GTA VI as well as they took a few requests from some users giving out some of the source code of GTA VI.<\/p>\n

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On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking, as part of an investigation supported by the @NCA_UK<\/a>\u2019s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU). <\/p>\n

He remains in police custody. pic.twitter.com\/Zfa3OlDR6J<\/a><\/p>\n

— City of London Police (@CityPolice) September 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n