Arion Kurtaj was found responsible by a British court of carrying out one of the biggest breaches in the history of the video game industry
December 22, 2023 By AFP
A British teenage hacker has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital stay to be treated for his inability to control himself online. Arion Kurtaj, 18, was found responsible by a British court in August of carrying out one of the biggest breaches in the history of the video game industry between August 2020 and September 2022 when he went on an unprecedented hacking spree that targeted the makers of “Grand Theft Auto”, among others.
A jury concluded that Kurtaj, whom psychiatrists deemed unfit to stand trial, had carried out numerous computer misuse, fraud and blackmail offences.
Prosecutors described him as one of the “key players” in the so-called Lapsus$ group that hacked Rockstar Games in 2022 and published footage from its still unreleased “Grand Theft Auto 6”.
