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Catherine Lewis

GTA 6 hacker who intended ‘to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible’ sentenced to an indefinite hospital order

A screenshot from the GTA 6 trailer.

The hacker behind the Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks which appeared online in September 2022 has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

As the BBC reports, Arion Kurtaj, 18, from Oxford, was involved with the hacking group Lapsus$, which previously attacked Nvidia and Uber. Although Kurtaj was deemed unfit to stand trial, a mental health assessment reportedly concluded that he “continued to express the intent to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible.”

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