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Teenagers Convicted of Grand Theft Auto, Nvidia Lapsus$ Hacks in the UK (bloomberg.com) 35

Posted by msmash from the time-to-face-music dept.
Two UK teenagers accused of being key members of the notorious hacking group Lapsus$, behind attacks on companies including Nvidia, Rockstar Games, and Uber, were convicted of their crimes by a London jury Wednesday. From a report: Arion Kurtaj, 18, and a 17-year-old male, who can't be identified, were found to have carried out a number of offenses including serious computer misuse, blackmail and fraud against BT Group's EE network and Nvidia. Kurtaj was also separately accused of hacks into Uber, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto game, and fintech firm Revolut. The Southwark Crown Court jury only needed to come to a decision on whether Kurtaj was liable for the crimes after he was found by the judge to be unfit to stand trial because of a complex medical condition. The jury found him liable for all 12 charges. The 17-year-old was found guilty of hacking, fraud and blackmail against Nvidia and cleared over two other counts against EE. He had previously plead guilty to two charges relating to the BT hacks. Lapsus$ are an international bunch of loosely connected online extortionists.
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  • Anyone else interpreted that the conviction as of grand theft auto in the first reading?

    • Yeah, the title could've been better written to eliminate the ambiguity.

      • Could have, but the ambiguity is intentional. Slashdot only copied it from the source. Hackers that stole a car? That's a story. They're just trying to get clicks, not be clear and concise.

        • Could have, but the ambiguity is intentional.

          Or... given that it's a London based journalist reporting on a crime in the UK and convicted in a London court it could easily be not as "grand theft auto" is the rather uniquely American name for what we call "car theft" over here.

          • That expression is not common in my country as well, by virtue of we not speaking English here; however, the first thing that came to my mind upon reading "Convicted of Grand Theft Auto" was that someone had been convicted for stealing real cars, since it made more sense. I have to confess the my second reading was that someone had been hacking cars to steal them.

            • correction: "(...) convicted *of* stealing real cars, since it made more sense. I have to confess *that* my second (...)". Sorry!

          • Journalists don't usually write their own headlines. It's usually an editor. Bloomberg is very much an American publication.

            Because the game is very popular all over, the name of this particular law is probably well known. But for anyone not familiar with it, the words would not read it as a game title anyway and you'd decide it is probably a name for a type of auto theft.

            • I parsed the headline as:

              Teenagers convicted of {Grand Theft Auto, Nvidia} hacks

              The parse:

              Teenagers convicted of Grand theft auto, {Nvidia hacks}

              is equally valid. I guess I parsed as the former as Grand Theft Auto is much more well known to me as a game than a crime.

        • Could have, but the ambiguity is intentional. Slashdot only copied it from the source. Hackers that stole a car? That's a story. They're just trying to get clicks, not be clear and concise.

          It's going to be quite interesting listening to 21st Century parents define the concept of a liar for their children, in order to educate them on how wrong lying is.

          The fact that lying and deception is wrong seems...ambiguous these days. And the future is going to pay for that. Dearly.

    • I'm sure this was an intentional headline designed to raise eyebrows. Especially as I saw it in a clipped headline in the RSS feed.

    • And that, apparently, Nvidia Lasus$ is engaged in hacking. I'm not really sure how the two tie together.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by mjwx ( 966435 )

      Anyone else interpreted that the conviction as of grand theft auto in the first reading?

      Had they actually stolen a car, they likely never would have been caught and if they did, receive a lighter sentence.

      I'm not some right wing nut job, quite the contrary. The UK conservatives have been cutting police budgets to the bone, then getting out the angle grinder to see how much bone they can remove whilst out of the other side of their mouth calling themselves the party of law and order, the cops over here don't have the resources to investigate car thefts.

      They've also be defunding the rest o

  • Are they part of SPECTRE?

  • Which gets worse punishment : committing actual grand theft auto, or hacking Grand Theft Auto?

    I'm sure that the lawyers will make a powerful argument that the economic harm is orders of magnitude larger in the latter case....

  • Technical details please? A phishing email, a word macro, a downloader, uploading of files.

  • is sim swapping and abusing the forgot password feature really hacking?

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