The 18-year-old is Albanian who hacked the tech giants and extracted footage from the GTA VI video game

2023-07-16 14:55:56Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The 18-year-old is Albanian who hacked the tech giants and extracted footage
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The hacker who managed to break into dozens of leading companies in technology, including "Rockstar Games", the publisher of the famous video game GTA VI, is an 18-year-old Albanian.

Foreign media report that it is about Arion Kurtaj, who was 17 years old at the time of committing the cybercrimes. He was part of the Lapsus$ hacker group when they released footage of the still-in-production video game Grand Theft Auto 6.

But although the Albanian is on trial for 12 criminal offences, including three counts of blackmail, two counts of fraud and six counts under the Computer Misuse Act, he may escape in peace.

According to Reuters media agency, the young Albanian has undergone examinations by psychiatrists, and according to them, he is unfit to stand trial. So a jury will only decide whether he committed the crimes, not whether he is guilty or not.

In addition to GTA 6, Kurtaj is accused of hacking the companies Uber and Nvidia, as well as threatening them to publish the source codes on the Internet.


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