By Chinua Albert Okafor @TheRoboRai
According to City of London police, a 17-year-old was arrested in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking but were not able to divulge any other information about him.
Several of the details of the arrest are in line with recent high-profile hacks, but police declined to say which incident led to the arrest. In conjunction with a Lapsus$ hacking group investigation this spring, the City of London police detained and later released seven teens.
The arrest that took place today also occurs only days after two security breaches that are thought to be related to Lapsus$, including the release of early Grand Theft Auto 6 material as a result of a "network intrusion" and a cyber attack at Uber that prompted it to temporarily shut down many internal systems.
Bloomberg also reported in March that a person suspected of being behind some of the group's big attacks was only a -16-year-old at the time whose home authorities raided near Oxford, England, in the county of Oxfordshire."We suspect that this attacker (or attackers) are linked with a hacking gang called Lapsus$, which has been increasingly active over the last year or two," Uber stated on its blog following the incident. In forum posts, the GTA 6 leaker claimed to be the same person responsible for the Uber hack.
On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking, as part of an investigation supported by the @NCA_UK’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).
— City of London Police (@CityPolice) September 23, 2022
He remains in police custody. pic.twitter.com/Zfa3OlDR6J
