Two UK Teenagers Charged With Hacking for Notorious Gang Lapsus$

Two teenagers from the UK have been charged by police over hacking for a notorious cyber-crime gang. From a report: A 16 and 17-year-old will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Friday. The boys have been charged with multiple cyber-offences and remain in police custody. The teens were arrested as part of an international police investigation into the Lapsus$ gang, which is relatively new but much talked-about. The cyber-crime group successfully breached major firms like Microsoft, and then bragged about it online. Last week, the FBI launched an appeal for information about the people behind the hacking crew. According to Det Insp Michael O'Sullivan, from the City of London Police, both teenagers have been charged with three counts of unauthorised access to a computer with intent to impair the reliability of data, one count of fraud by false representation, and one count of unauthorised access to a computer with intent to hinder access to data.

Perhaps it's time to rethink online security?

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

If it's that easy (for teens no less) to hack into MS and other systems, perhaps it's time to change the way we think about security, and start implementing such...

Low hanging fruit: Tell us what you do know

[Anonymous Coward]

"Hacking" is a catch-all term that might mean "added ../../../ to an url" (the English courts have handed out at least one sentence for that), "already had the password", "found the keys to the kingdom in the published source" (possibly from github, but might as well be the HTML already in your browser), and what-have-you.

As long as we deliberately muddle the issues by speaking in befuddling terms, no significant improvement will happen. "Hacker", "hacking", "hacks", all qualify as deliberately obfuscating

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[zlives]

move along citizen, nothing to see here

There's your Problem

[nukenerd]

So the perps bragged about their crime. That's the problem with employing teenaged boys.

Officials stated ...

[PPH]

... that the teenagers would be prosecuted to the full extent allowed by law.

Hah! April 1. Got you there.

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[Viol8]

"You'll have a nice comfy remand cell all to yourself"

[pause]

"April fool! Here's your new roomie, calls himself Knuckles."

...in other news

[Mr.Fork]

...Mi-6's new anti-cyber group has announced a new program targeting high school youth as early recruits into their fight against worldwide organized criminal elements.