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GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room (hackaday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The story is more interesting than the title suggests! This guy was arrested for hacking two telecom companies, got released under investigation, then immediately hacked Nvidia before being put under house arrest. After that, he was relocated to a hotel (due to being doxxed) where all he had to work with was a Fire TV stick, which he promptly then used to hack Rockstar.

All in all, he's believed to have stolen $14 million+. By the way... he's 18, autistic, and enrolled in a special education school.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fact he used a FireTV stick to hack Rockstar is pretty impressive lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m guessing those things run Linux. So you would just need a shell.

Though I’m guessing term of his house arrest didn’t allow him to have a keyboard. That part has me curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The article or maybe the comments said he accessed a cloud based Linux service using the FireStick and went to work from there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They run Android, so not really standard Linux, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Install an Android app that lets you ssh into something, bingo bango, you have a full Linux terminal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It says he used cloud services so probably only needed a web browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bingo bango

what's up with this phrase coming back into style?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

So either a remote control or voice control.

Anyway, kid has too much time on his hands, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rock, fire, stick... there's a theme

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the theme is "Don't underestimate Neanderthals, they're pretty much the granddaddy of Homo sapiens". Or in short, "primitive, not unintelligent".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

… what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It always warms my heart when a single person is able to outsmart large multi-million/billion dollar tech companies like Nvidia and Rockstar. Really shows how piss poor these companies security can be.

I would definitely look to hire that kid with a high wage just to make sure he doesn't hacke me again, if I were one of the companies he hacked into. Companies should really think about trying to hire these hackers because then the threats against them might go down ever so slightly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Counterpoint: he got caught. Whatever his offensive capabilities are, his security posture is evidently lacking. Recruiting a glass cannon like that might not work out if you're looking for help with security hardening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would definitely look to hire that kid with a high wage just to make sure he doesn’t hacke me again, if I were one of the companies he hacked into. Companies should really think about trying to hire these hackers because then the threats against them might go down ever so slightly.

I understand your thought, but some people just want to watch the world burn and you definitely don't want to bring that sort inside.
This guy seems to be driven, capable and lacking the common sense to know when to stop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After that, he was relocated to a hotel (due to being doxxed) where all he had to work with was a Fire TV stick, which he promptly then used to hack Rockstar.

Fuckin' bravo. I mean, don't do that, but on a purely technical level - nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All in all, he’s believed to have stolen $14 million+. By the way… he’s 18, autistic, and enrolled in a special education school.

that kid's my hero

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Da fuck....

Waiting for the movie btw 🍿.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Prior to reading your comment, I considered myself to be a skilled software developer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ, this man is a criminal Tony Starks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

British teen from the Lapsus$ gang hacks GTA 6 details in a small town hotel room using an Amazon Fire Stick. Despite compromising British telcos, he's exposed, caught by authorities, and leaks GTA 6 footage after using the Fire Stick to access cloud services and breach organizations. The tale highlights untapped talent and lack of support in his education system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also highlights the fact that government agencies are doing Rockstar's dirty work. Think you'll ever see this level of investigation for someone's account hacked for nudes or identity theft? Nope, only corpos worth multi-billions get expensive, in depth investigations paid for by tax dollars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The kid also stole 14m dollars and was already caught for his previous hacks into other companies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was reading Hackaday's source article on BBC and came across this:

That did not deter the duo who continued hacking with Lapsus$ and successfully breached Nvidia, a Silicon Valley tech giant that makes chips for artificial intelligence chatbots, in February 2022.

That's a funny as fuck way of classifying Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds like something written by AI, ironically. That's the most talked about thing for the moment, so that's what it picks up on. It doesn't care if it's correct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anyone seen where to check the footage out?? Looks like it's all been DMCA'd from the majority of the web... I'm not a huge GTA Stan but I kinda wanna see what got leaked!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It isn't very interesting because it's just a bunch of internal videos that people sent to each other for various reasons. And it's all out of context because the context would have been provided in an email but we don't ever see.

Sometimes I'm not sure what some of the footage is trying to demonstrate.

Also most of the animation stuff isn't complete yet and the AI, at least in the videos I saw was brain dead. So it's not really representative of the final product and it doesn't really look like anything.