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[Draugoth]

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's National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU). He remains in police custody.

Brought up by Tom Henderson:

 

[Alexious]

How would you know it's the GTA 6 hacker, exactly?

 

[Torrent of Pork]

On one hand it was felony grand larceny, on the other hand he'll be snapped up by the first tech company that offers more money than we will ever make.

 

[Skifi28]

He'll either get hired or killed, fun times.

 

[DavidGzz]

Wasted

 

[IDKFA]

Can't argue with that considering he broke the law, but does the tweet really need a giant visual with ARRESTED plastered on it like it's some sort of sports celebration.

 

[Mr Hyde]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Glad to see that there are still some tech savy teens left in the world, even if he used the abilities pointlessly. I thought all hacking was done with state sponsored money nowadays.

 

[Sybrix]

 

[The Cockatrice]

Nowhere does it say it's the GTA hacker. Stop posting shit.

 

[Draugoth]

How would you know it's the GTA 6 hacker, exactly?

Information lines up with what is know

 

[Ceadeus]

17 years, so he skips jail?

 

[yurinka]

How would you know it's the GTA 6 hacker, exactly?

Evidence found on his computer and/or in the hacked ones. When you connect to servers and computers where are let's say 'digital footprints' left, some of which can be 'cleaned'/removed, but other ones -specially depending on how their security was- nope.

The hacker can make some tricks to make him more difficult to be indentified/take longer to identify him (like using multiple VPNs making a computer to connect to other one in a row to don't connect him directly to the place he wants to steal from), but often isn't the case.

 

[Jayjayhd34]

Nowhere does it say it's the GTA hacker. Stop posting shit.

It does ''it seems'' and it does lineup with what we know about the hacker

 

[TintoConCasera]

based kid dabbin' on Rockstar

 

[Shadowplay1979]

This dudes gonan get an offer to work for the government instead of the uks equivalent of juvie

 

[Warnen]

I thought u had to be 18 to play GTA?

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Old enough to be able to face the heat. Screw all the politically correct shit when costing time and unknown amount of money.

Throw the book (literally lol) at him/her/they.

 

[Fuz]

 

[lughnasadh123]

He's going to feel a new kind of crunch.

 

[spons]

Risk of the job bro, you either get rich or rot away.

 

[jm89]

What are they feeding these 17 year olds?

I'll be surprised if this dude even gets juve, slap on the wrist and some community service.

 

[Shut0wen]

17 years, so he skips jail?

Probs get a court date abd go on until hes 18 since theres a huge backlog, probs get community service if he didnt take and sell on peoples details

 

[Three]

Wasted

I was going to say why did they use that 'Arrested' image that looks like the game over screen.

 

[Fake]

GTA vibes. Can't imagine a greater paradox than that.

 

[AV]

I got a record. I was Zero Cool.

 

[The_Mike]

 

[Roxkis_ii]

They say it's always pride before the fall.
It's one thing to try and extort people privately, it's another to do it publicly. Now they have to make an example out of him to let people know it's not safe.

 

[Sybrix]

And he'll be made an example of.

No way will Take Two/Rockstar let this one get off lightly.

 

[Hugare]

And he'll be made an example of.

No way will Take Two/Rockstar let this one get off lightly.

This right here

"Oh but he is a minor". He tried extorting TT and Rockstar.

No way this will be only a slap on the wrist

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Hacking and leaking would be one thing, but he tried to extort Rockstar with it. Something tells me community service won't cut it.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Only 17 ?
Damn Ithat's impressive.

 

[recursive]

It does ''it seems'' and it does lineup with what we know about the hacker

What do we know about the hacker?

 

[GymWolf]

If the dude is underage he is just gonna get a couple of months of houser arrest.

Spoiler

 

[Saber]

I mean they arrested a hacker alright, but thats it. Thats probaly something they do on their daily basis.
Words from the tweet it self: " wait for the official word if it was him or not".

 

[Bartski]

 

[ozz ex machina]

I mean they arrested a hacker alright, but thats it. Thats probaly something they do on their daily basis.
Words from the tweet it self: " wait for the official word if it was him or not".

You think the police bother to arrest hackers on a daily basis?

 

[Jayjayhd34]

What do we know about the hacker?

He got doxxed and apparently we know his name however the age is of by a year he supposedly 16 from the UK.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

He's goin down, fam.

 

[GloveSlap]

You got balls pulling this in a 1st world country, i'll give you that.

 

[tmlDan]

Isn't GTA 17+? the kid just reached the age where he's allowed to play it and now he'll go to jail.

 

[SlimySnake]

Try him as an adult and send his ass to jail. I dont care if its a fancy white collar jail or if its for 1-2 months. He needs to spend that time away from society.

It's the only way these kids will learn. They take advantage of the fact that they are underage and will get off with a slap on the wrist.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

NeoGAF justice warriors probably want to ruin this kids life forever.

 

[Jayjayhd34]

Try him as an adult and send his ass to jail. I dont care if its a fancy white collar jail or if its for 1-2 months. He needs to spend that time away from society.

It's the only way these kids will learn. They take advantage of the fact that they are underage and will get off with a slap on the wrist.

Can't be tried adult uk if it's him he likely to get slap on wrist.

 

[JackSparr0w]

Try him as an adult and send his ass to jail. I dont care if its a fancy white collar jail or if its for 1-2 months. He needs to spend that time away from society.

It's the only way these kids will learn. They take advantage of the fact that they are underage and will get off with a slap on the wrist.

That would be a waste of brainpower. They should put the underage thugs with knives to jail instead.

 

[tmlDan]

That would be a waste of brainpower. They should put the underage thugs with knives to jail instead.

watch the FBI hire him lol

 

[anthony2690]

Will he just get a slap on the wrist as he is 17? Genuinely curious as to what will my happen to him.

The kid is obviously quite clever, so I wonder if someone will hire him even.

 

[Slicker than your average]

It's the UK and he leaked some shit. Won't get jail time.

I'm sure if it was the US he'd end up in a supermax.

 

[Sybrix]

Will he just get a slap on the wrist as he is 17? Genuinely curious as to what will my happen to him.

The kid is obviously quite clever, so I wonder if someone will hire him even.

If found guilty he can face 5 years in prison for committing cyber crime.

Add the extortion to that which can be up to 14 years in prison, he could be looking at 19 years max in prison, halved to 9 years if he behaves himself.

Who knows if Take Two will want to extradite him to the USA to face charges their.

 

[skit_data]

Feel kinda bad about this kid, when I was 17 I sure did stupid things and had no sense of how it would impact my life in the future but this dude took that to another level.