{"id":77360,"date":"2022-09-25T04:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/london-police-arrested-17-year-old-hacker-suspected-of-uber-and-gta-6-breaches\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T04:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:50:05","slug":"london-police-arrested-17-year-old-hacker-suspected-of-uber-and-gta-6-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/london-police-arrested-17-year-old-hacker-suspected-of-uber-and-gta-6-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"London Police Arrested 17-Year-Old Hacker Suspected of Uber and GTA 6 Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking.<\/p>\n

“On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking,” the agency said<\/a>adding “he remains in police custody.”<\/p>\n

The department said the arrest was made as part of an investigation in partnership with the UK National Crime Agency’s cyber crime unit.<\/p>\n

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No further details about the nature of the investigation were disclosed, although it’s suspected that the law enforcement action may have something to do with the recent string of high-profile hacks aimed at Uber and Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n

Both the intrusions are alleged to have been committed by the same threat actor, who goes by the name Tea Pot (aka teapotuberhacker).<\/p>\n

Uber, for its part, has pinned the breach on an attacker (or attackers) that it believes is associated with the LAPSUS$ extortion gang, two of whom are facing fraud charges.<\/p>\n

According to cybersecurity company Flashpoint, the real world identity of the hacker behind the two incidents is said to have been outed on an online illicit forum.<\/p>\n

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“The administrator for that forum claimed that teapotuberhacker was the same individual who had allegedly hacked Microsoft and ‘owned’ Doxbin,” the company disclosed Friday.<\/p>\n

This also means that the teapotuberhacker actor is likely the same party who is also known by the aliases White, Breachbase, and WhiteDoxbin and is believed to be “LAPSUS$’s apparent ringleader.”<\/p>\n

It’s not immediately clear if these hold water, but could explain the latest arrest by law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n

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