{"id":1232,"date":"2022-09-24T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2022-09-25T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:25:15","slug":"london-police-arrested-17-year-old-hacker-suspected-uber-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/london-police-arrested-17-year-old-hacker-suspected-uber-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"London Police Arrested 17-Year-Old Hacker Suspected of Uber and GTA 6 Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking,&#8221; the agency\u00a0said, adding &#8220;he remains in police custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The department said the arrest was made as part of an investigation in partnership with the U.K. National Crime Agency&#8217;s cyber crime unit.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the nature of the investigation were disclosed, although it&#8217;s suspected that the law enforcement action may have something to do with the recent string of high-profile hacks aimed at\u00a0Uber\u00a0and\u00a0Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n<p>Both the intrusions are alleged to have been committed by the same threat actor, who goes by the name Tea Pot (aka teapotuberhacker).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1234\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1234\" src=\"https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-24-at-10.00.08-PM-289x300.png\" alt=\"uberuber hacked\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-24-at-10.00.08-PM-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-24-at-10.00.08-PM-768x796.png 768w, https:\/\/zerothcode.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-24-at-10.00.08-PM.png 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">uberuber hacked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Uber, for its part, has pinned the breach on an attacker (or attackers) that it believes is associated with the LAPSUS$ extortion gang, two of whom are facing fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to cybersecurity company Flashpoint, the real world identity of the hacker behind the two incidents is said to have been outed on an online illicit forum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The administrator for that forum claimed that teapotuberhacker was the same individual who had\u00a0allegedly hacked Microsoft\u00a0and &#8216;owned&#8217; 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