Rockstar Games claimed it spent $5 million to recover from the attack. The outlet reports that the judge dismissed Kurtaj’s defence that the trailer’s popularity should be considered in the sentencing, saying that Lapsus$ harmed real people and businesses. The official trailer for GTA 6 was released earlier this month, and it got hundreds of millions of views despite the leak of the videos by Kurtaj and the early release of the trailer on X (formerly Twitter).ĪLSO READ| BTS is unbeatable: GTA 6 trailer racks up millions but fails to dethrone Dynamite views fans demand collaboration
He was arrested for the last time after this incident.Īnother 17-year-old member of Lapsus$ received an 18-month community sentence, known as a Youth Rehabilitation Order, and a prohibition from using virtual private networks.
He was under police protection at a hotel, but he still managed to hack Rockstar Games by using the Amazon Fire Stick in the room and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse,” the BBC says in another report. Kurtaj was out on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT / EE, a British telecom company, when he leaked 90 GTA 6 gameplay footage in September. UK police have arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire as part of an ongoing police hacking investigation. The judge heard on Thursday that Kurtaj “had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage,” according to the BBC.ĪLSO READ| Insomniac games leak: Hackers demand $2 million, leak games until 2032Ī mental health evaluation also revealed that Kurtaj “continued to express the intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible.” He will remain in the hospital prison for life unless doctors deem him safe to be released. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now.