- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
You must log in or register to comment.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
He broke into the company’s internal Slack messaging system to declare “if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code”.
He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.
The gang - thought to mostly be teenagers - used con-man like tricks as well as computer hacking to gain access to multinational corporations such as Microsoft, the technology giant and digital banking group Revolut.
During their spree, the hackers regularly celebrated their crimes publicly and taunted victims on the social network app Telegram in English and Portuguese.
The original article contains 710 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Fuck me. He did it with a fire stick, TV and mobile phone. What a fucking waste to put this kid in prison for the rest of his life.
What a fucking waste to put this kid in prison for the rest of his life.
For real, the government should’ve hired him as security consultant, and put it thru some kind of scholarship.
because hacking is the same as murder and being a domestic terrorist give iess jail time, murica amI right
Ah yes my favorite American state, the UK
There’s an episode of DD podcast about him: https://podcastaddict.com/darknet-diaries/episode/148169812