A teenage member of a hacking group Petni Uber and fintech company Revolut hacked, then blackmailed developers of hit video game Grand Theft AutoProsecutors told a London court.
18-year-old Arion Kurtaj reportedly attacked Revolut and Uber in September 2022, accessing the information of around 5,000 Revolut customers and causing Uber around $3 million in damages.
Prosecutors allege he hacked Rockstar Games Days later and threatened to release the source code of the planned sequel Grand Theft Auto Sent to all employees in a Slack message music star. He is also accused, along with a 17-year-old, of blackmailing Britain’s biggest broadband provider, BT Group, and mobile operator EE between July and November 2021, demanding a $4 million ransom.
According to prosecutors, the couple, who they called “key players” Petni, they hacked into chipmaker Nvidia Corporation in February 2022 and demanded payment not to release their data. Prosecutor Kevin Barry told jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London last week that the 17-year-old had hacked into cloud storage City by London police weeks after the force arrested him in connection with the attacks on BT and the US.
Kurtaz then went on a solo cybercrime spree, before hacking first Revloot and then Uber two days later, Barry said. Rockstar Games.
Psychiatrists evaluated Kurtaz and determined he was incompetent to stand trial, so the jury must determine whether he committed the acts he is accused of rather than return a verdict of guilty or not guilty. He is charged with 12 offences, including three counts of blackmail, two counts of fraud and six counts under the Computer Crimes Act.
The 17-year-old is on trial for two counts of blackmail, two counts of fraud and three counts under the Computer Crimes Act relating to the BT and Nvidia hacks, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
Earlier, he had pleaded guilty to two offenses under the Computer Crimes Act and one charge of cheating.
Through: Reuters
Editor’s note: This kid is so good at hacking that he was able to modify the root file for authorities to avoid going to court. What a champion!
