Teenager found liable for GTA 6 hack did it in a Travelodge where police put him after he was arrested for another hack

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Teenager found liable for GTA 6 hack did it in a Travelodge where police put him after he was arrested for another hack
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Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as '[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike.'

, a game that Rockstar has yet to officially unveil, and the court heard that Kurtaj leaked the clips from a Travelodge hotel while he was already on bail after being arrested for another hack.

The pair had met online before beginning to hack together in July 2021. Lapsus$ targeted telecoms firms BT and EE on August 1, 2021, demanding a $4 million ransom. The ransom was not paid but SIM details were used to steal £100,000 worth of cryptocurrency from linked wallets. It was here that Kurtaj was involved in hacking Rockstar Games . During this attack the court heard Kurtaj posted a message on Rockstar's Slack saying,"I am not a Rockstar employee, I am an attacker." He said he'd got all the data for Grand Theft Auto 6 and that if Rockstar did not make contact within 24 hours, he would"start releasing the source code." 90 clips of the game were then posted on a GTA forum from user TeaPotUberHacker.

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